Rep. Ro Khanna Discusses Fighting Back against Trump and MAGA
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Why did Speaker Mike Johnson appear distressed on camera after the Senate vote?
Maga Mike looked off. He looked scared. His voice was cracking. And it was a day where, you know, you would think that maybe he'd be spiking the football. I don't know. But he refused to answer questions from the press. He like rocked. ran away when they were asking basic questions like, what are you gonna do on the Affordable Care Act? Are you gonna do a vote to extend the subsidies? Just watch for yourself, Magna Mike behaving even more odd than normal, if you can believe that. Here, play this clip.
And finally do the right thing and help us to bring an end to the pain of the American people. This has gone on too long. Too many people have suffered and it's long overdue. That's the update I wanted to give you this morning. There are probably lots of questions, but I'm going to get a lot of my own questions answered later today. So stay tuned for more. Thanks so much.
I mean, you're the speaker of the house, man. What do you mean you're going to get some of your own questions answered later in the day? Like, aren't you supposed to be like the guy? Aren't you the guy who answers the questions for other people? So then Manu Raju from CNN tried to catch for him as he was walking to his office. And again, very odd. Here, play this clip.
whatever the bill passes that senate on aca you'll give it a call from the house look we're going to do in the house what we always do and it's a deliberative process to find consensus on whatever uh whatever the proposal is as you know as you know as you know i do not guarantee the outcome of legislation or dates or deadlines No, I don't.
I can't do it.
In other words, Maga Mike, the Speaker of the House, is saying that they will not basically put up a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies in the House of Representatives. So I'm not really sure what the Democrats in the Senate, those eight Democrats, were thinking he was going to do. Of course, he's taking orders from Donald Trump. But he was asked on Greta Van Susteren, so do you guys have a plan? Are the Republicans going to come up with a solution before December 31st because people's premiums are about to spike? Watch what Meg and Mike responds. Let's play this clip.
Well, is the Republican idea or solution going to go into effect at midnight on December 31st because people are going to get sticker shock on this insurance? I mean, this is really sort of an urgent matter for a lot of people.
Yeah, it's an urgent matter for us, and it has been, which is why we put it into the bill that we passed in the early summer, and the Democrats fought to take it out. So we're reintroducing some of these ideas. There's a lot of ideas on how to drive the cost down, and we have November and December to work on that. We're going to have to get a bipartisan consensus on some of this, and so we'll be presenting our ideas and putting them on the table.
Okay, so they have concepts of an idea, concepts of a plan. Maybe, I don't know, he's got, he tries this again, he goes on Fox and he says, we've got notebooks full of ideas. You wanna share them? Here, play this clip.
Subsidizing the insurance companies is not the answer because it just drives the cost up even further So we need to look at the root causes The Republican Party is the party that is working on that has been working on it and has more ideas going forward We've got to bring down the cost and you can do that in a responsible way that also Increases access and quality of care and we've got we got notebooks full of ideas on how to do that We got a book consensus around it notebooks full of ideas that nobody has seen
Fake votes that aren't going to happen in the future. The hell is going on here? I want to bring in Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna to try to make sense of this. Congressman Khanna, it's great to see you again. So you had these eight Democrats in the Senate saying, woohoo, we got the Republicans to agree. to a vote in the Senate, not that they'll agree to extend the subsidies. And like the whole time we've been saying, well, even if they did that, they're going to vote against it and they're not even going to bring it up in the House.
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