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Chapter 1: What is the impact of Trump's actions on the GOP?
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Republicans are absolutely losing it right now as the American people are livid.
Can you extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies? And MAGA Republican is, you know what? That's what they're saying. You know what everyone's complaining about? It's not the extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies. They're wondering why we don't have talking... lizards selling you healthcare on TV. Am I right? Isn't that what the American people are asking for?
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Chapter 2: How are Republicans responding to the Affordable Care Act subsidies issue?
I kid you not. That is what the MAGA Republicans are saying is part of their plan. Here, watch what Steve Scalise, MAGA Republican, said in the morning. Let's play it. ...to lower costs.
The Choice Act... Which, you know, everybody complains, they say, why would I watch TV commercials? I see this gecko lizard and I see the emu and I see all these other animals out there selling health, they're selling car insurance, they're selling homeowner's insurance. Why aren't they selling health insurance?
That's exactly the question on everybody's mind right now. Why aren't they selling health insurance? Then let me show you what Mike Lawler, a Republican, had to say that it was political malpractice to not allow a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidy. Let's play it.
Well, Mike Lawler is a very dear friend and a close colleague of mine. And ironically, the weekend before last, I was in New York in his district on Long Island, and we were campaigning together ensuring that he gets reelected. Mike Lawler fights hard for New York, as every Republican in this conference does for their districts. The districts are different.
They have different priorities and ideas. But we do have, there's about a dozen members in the conference that are in these swing districts who are fighting hard to make sure that they reduce costs for all of their constituents. And many of them did want to vote on this Obamacare, you know, COVID era subsidy the Democrats created.
We looked for a way to try to allow for that pressure release valve. And it just was not to be. We worked on it all the way through the weekend, in fact. And in the end, there was not an agreement wasn't made. Now, everybody was at the table in good faith.
Pressure release valve. It was not meant to be. What about that pressure release valve? That's how the American people are thinking about, I really wanna release that pressure valve. And then finally, you have Maga Mike being asked, so Donald Trump said that his legislative agenda is done. So if this is it, if it's done, why should people be voting for Republicans if this is it?
Here, play this clip.
Well, I don't know which comment you're referring to and in what context, but I'll tell you, I talk to the president sometimes multiple times each day. He and I and his team and our teams work around the clock. Literally, the president and I will talk sometimes at midnight and then again at 6 a.m.
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Chapter 3: What does Congressman Moskowitz say about healthcare challenges?
I mean, this president doesn't sleep. He's working all the time. The agenda is aggressive. There is much more to do. I think what he's... Sometimes when he's... I think he's taken out of context on...
it's always taken out of context he never sleeps they talk in the middle of the night let's bring in democratic congress member jared moskowitz congressman moskowitz i just give you these layups sometimes at the beginning sometimes we're like what should we talk about i'll let you respond to those clips although it's some deeply serious stuff that they're kind of making light of huh
There was a lot there, Ben. I don't even know where to begin. Can we go back to the characters from the insurance companies, like the gecko and the duck? I like Scalise talking about all the zoo animals. I sometimes think that's reminiscence of what the house is like. It's probably why he felt comfortable. He's actually not making a terrible point, by the way.
It's something that we've discussed in Florida in the legislature for a long period of time, which is allowing insurance companies to sell specific lines of insurance that they make money on and allowing insurance companies to not sell certain lines of insurance that they don't make money on. In Florida, it's a home insurance issue where we let them sell auto insurance, but not home insurance.
They always threatened to pull out of the market if we make them sell home insurance. Here's a similar thing, right? I mean, everyone should be selling all lines of insurance. Some of them will make a lot of money. Some will be lost leaders.
So he's not making a terrible point there, but I do like that he's using all of the lovely characters that we often think about, which sometimes reminds us of Mike Johnson, who gets to cosplay as Speaker. I love every time he's asked about the president. I mean, obviously, we know Speaker Johnson doesn't have any health issues that have been reported, but I mean, he's got memory problems.
I haven't seen that. I haven't heard about it. You're telling me about it for the first time. You know, the president, he likes words and all caps and commas. And, you know, he says things that are sometimes funny, you know.
But, I mean, man, Speaker Johnson just can't get away from having to, you know, figure out how to defend the president without making it look like he has completely no idea what's going on at any point in time in the Capitol.
uh you know as far as lawler and and the group of republicans look they just they're trying to win their re-election they know there's a tsunami coming and you know the republicans say they want to keep the house but they're exposing their you know center members or you know supposed center moderate members who want to take a health care vote lawler's literally trying to save them from themselves and they're not willing to listen and so look that is what it is
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Chapter 4: How is the GOP's healthcare strategy perceived by voters?
They never did repeal and they never came up with replace, right? We have a concept of a plan in the first Trump administration. He said he was releasing it like every two weeks. That two weeks went on for three years, right? Then we're back. Okay, you know, in a Trump administration, and you know, they still have a concept of a plan. It's clearly in their Twitter drafts folder, right?
It's still in the drafts. They've not released it. I mean, 15 years seems like a long time. Not only that, they had 45 days when Mike Johnson furloughed us for the first time in American history. Didn't let us come and do our congressional job. They had 45 days to come up with ideas, didn't do it. So we're gonna go off this cliff. They own it. It's really unfortunate.
They're gonna hurt a lot of Americans in the process.
And we're going off this healthcare cliff. where especially a lot of unemployed people or people transitioning to new jobs are on Affordable Care Act plans. A lot of individual business people on these Affordable Care Act plans at a time where we just got the job numbers and the job numbers aren't good, up to 4.6% unemployment.
If you look at job losses over the past year, up 54%, over 1.2 million jobs lost. in the past year with Donald Trump. So there should never be a time where you're ripping away people's healthcare, but when you also have people becoming unemployed, this is a recipe for disaster and it's a disaster.
I don't know if you know this, but the affordability thing is a hoax.
That's what Donald Trump says. And he says, but let's go to your district because you have an interesting district in Florida. It was Trump almost won that district in the last election. DeSantis won that district by like a point. So I'm curious though, if you've seen
changes in your district on their outlook right now of the political dynamic with these very close races in 2024 and we're seeing plus 12 plus 14 democratic over performances we saw what happened in miami recently with the democratic mayor winning there what are you seeing in your district in florida
Well, let's go backwards for a second. So, you know, Florida had had more Democrats, more registered Democrats. Even when we were electing Republican governors, we still had more registered Democrats in the state of Florida. But since COVID, that's dramatically changed.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of healthcare policy on midterm elections?
You know, this was a district that, you know, Ted Deutch won by 13 points. Then they redistricted when I first came in and I won it by five. in a year that Ron DeSantis won his reelection by two. So I overperformed with Ron DeSantis winning the state by 19 points, winning my district by two, and me winning by five.
The district has become even more Republican since then, almost four years ago now, since I first got, three years ago since I first got reelected. And they're talking about even more redistricting. But you're hearing a lot of things. Some of my Republican colleagues are very worried that they don't want their districts to be touched
uh because if their districts become less republican uh with the wave that is coming uh you know they they could lose their election we also have a constitutional amendment in florida that the voters put in the constitution that bars political gerrymandering so all of the folks out there talking about how they're going to politically gerrymander you know that'll be used obviously in the coming depositions and the lawsuits
uh so we'll have to see i mean it's a very this is not working out as they intended because they were using trump numbers when trump was on the ballot when they were drawing these districts and we're seeing now with trump not on the ballot they're having a turnout issue we're clearly seeing a you know a democratic wave coming there's 150 years of history that shows when one party has all three branches of government they lose either the house or the senate uh uh coming up
And so, look, you could have a circumstance where, you know, Democrats are gonna dramatically overperform in 26, mainly because we're the alternative and mainly because a lot of their voters won't turn out. In Dade County specifically, right, obviously, you know, they told the Venezuelans they wouldn't touch TPS. They told the Haitians they wouldn't touch TPS.
That turned out not to be true, the temporary protective status. The Trump administration did come after those two communities. And the Cubans are obviously watching what's happening, unfolding on television. seeing some of the cruelty that's going on, seeing some of the insensitivity with families and wondering, you know, what could happen in their neck of the woods.
So, you know, Florida still a Republican state, still dramatic Republican registration, but the trends are clearly not in Republican favor in 2026.
Let's talk FEMA. You led emergency management in Florida, notably under the DeSantis administration, and you were widely credited for running that very successfully. And you're seeing right now the way FEMA is being run into the ground or has been run into the ground. I know there was supposed to be
now infamously because christine ohm said that's where she had to go to when she left that hearing early last week but they were supposed to do this fema review council where they were going to be i guess recommending basically the in theory this is what the purpose of this council when it was set up by executive order to destroy fema in donald trump's words and transfer it to the states whatever the hell that's supposed to mean and
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Chapter 6: How has the political landscape in Florida changed recently?
So without spreading out the risk, which is what FEMA does statewide when they come in, using federal dollars, state's budgets are gonna be disastrous. You'd have to raise taxes. And so I actually think they're trying to reform FEMA. And look, FEMA needs reform. I think there's nothing wrong with that. That's a fair criticism. But that reform is getting FEMA out of Homeland Security.
And believe it or not, that was actually in the original report. In the original report done by this, it was like 100 and something pages long. They were gonna move FEMA out of Homeland. Kristi Noem actually stopped that. She pulled that out of the report and sent a shorter report to the White House, not the full report.
that the entire council did she then created her own summary of the report sent to the white house okay i don't know where this is obviously because obviously i don't get information but something tells me there's a disconnect between what christine noem is trying to accomplish and what the white house wants to try to accomplish and i think they're the ones who canceled that meeting and i think they're the ones who have paused this whole thing because they're hearing from republican governors who can't get their reimbursement money out of fema
Can't get it out of Kristi Noem. You're talking billions of dollars for previous storms, things that were already declared under federal declaration, under presidential declaration, money that was spent at the local level, blowing up city county budgets, okay, that they can't get their federally declared statutory money out of Kristi Noem. And so right now, FEMA is in a very perilous situation.
Thank goodness for the American people and for the administration, quite frankly, we didn't have a hurricane this summer that would have just destroyed the agency. We got a little taste of it at that horrific flooding in Texas where FEMA couldn't even get its swift water rescue crews going because Kristi Noem wouldn't put them out there.
You then had the director of that department resign in protest over that. And so FEMA is not a good place. I would say of all the agencies that have been destroyed, USAID and FEMA, USAID being gone, FEMA still being there. FEMA has been just completely obliterated, doesn't have a core mission, probably couldn't respond. We need to focus on response. We can do block grants.
We can block grant some of this money down to the states. I think states can handle that. Not all the money has to be done up here. I agree with that. That's something that Republicans have put up. I can support that. But I think we gotta get FEMA out of Homeland. Homeland is slowing it down. It's a giant bureaucratic mess.
And we just got to get it out of there if we want FEMA to really serve the American people in their greatest time of need. And these disasters are not partisan. They hit Americans, left, right, center, doesn't matter. We got to go back to treating disaster management that way.
Finally, before we go, just wanted to ask your thoughts about Susie Wiles, Vanity Fair interview, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. She comes out of Florida politics. And so what Vanity Fair says, over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of Trump
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Chapter 7: What role does FEMA play in disaster management under current leadership?
Listen, I know Susie, obviously from Florida. I consider Susie to be one of the most capable people I've ever met. That doesn't mean we agree politically, but from a capability standpoint and running a logistical operation, I mean, Susie knows what she's doing. I don't know what to make of the article.
There's a lot of stuff going back and forth with what was said, what was not said, what was, you know, what was published, what was not published. But obviously this is something that people are going to discuss. I did send a little note to James Comer this morning who, you know, wants to schedule these depositions for Hillary and Bill.
you know, in that article specifically said there is no evidence in any of the files dealing with Bill Clinton that they were just wrong about that. So sorry, James, another thing that you touch dies. But as your friend, I'm always praying for you.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz, thanks for joining us. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Congressman Moskowitz provide on future elections?
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