Trump's House Strategy Puts Mike Johnson in the Spotlight

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Professor Devi Sridhar 0:00
I'm Shannon Maldonado, the founder of the Jaui gift shop that sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the devices, I found them to be one of the easiest to use devices. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All the tools needed for sales, such as storage design, are in the dashboard. Start the free trial at shopify.com website. I'm Shannon Maldonado, the founder of Jaui, a gift shop that sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All the tools needed for sales, such as stock planning, are in the dashboard.
Professor Devi Sridhar 0:52
Start your free trial at shopify.com.
Shannon Maldonado 0:57
I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com website.
Ben Meiselas 1:26
Maga Mike Johnson is in terror as it is increasingly clear that Donald Trump wants to shut down the House of Representatives for the remainder of the year. I'll show you what Maga Mike is doing in just a moment as he is panicking and flailing and posting everything other than what he should be doing in the House of Representatives, which is dealing with the War Powers Resolution as Donald Trump continues to escalate war against Iran. Now, when I say Donald Trump wants to permanently shut down the House of Representatives, If you look at the moves that he's making, he's doing things to create a constant state of gridlock, a constant state of infighting within the MAGA Republicans in the House and the Senate in order to ensure that no work is done so he can continue to rule as an authoritarian and to continue to engage in his unlawful war against Iran, which, of course, he just resumed last night.
Ben Meiselas 2:19
Now, Donald Trump has just recently posted that he now wants $350 billion for the Defense Department as part of what he's calling Reconciliation 3.0. Now, previously, the Trump regime said all they needed was $67 billion, which is not really a little amount, but they said they needed $67 billion because the Defense Department could not pay its bills arising out of the catastrophic war in Iran, which we hoped potentially maybe could be resolved with the Memorandum of Understanding, although we knew the Trump regime was going to destroy that which they've now done. The MOU is basically shredded to pieces, which it was before anyway. And now the Trump regime notably is saying they need $350 billion or else the Defense Department is going to be in shambles.
Ben Meiselas 3:11
Now, I believe that Donald Trump knows that that number, $350 billion, when you combine it as well with what else he's asking for, which is his voter suppression act called the Saves America Act, is something that the House of Representatives is not going to be able to pass. He doesn't have the votes for that in the United States Senate either. But I think Trump wants a constant state of gridlock, and he's going to keep on moving the goalposts so nothing actually gets done, so he can reign like the authoritarian that he wants to be. So this could be like the Russian Duma not in session. I mean, when was the last time the House of Representatives even worked? And so Donald Trump is going to keep on trying to pull these stunts in order to keep the House basically shut down for the end of the year while he and Netanyahu continue to escalate in the Middle East, which is what we're seeing happen right now.
Ben Meiselas 4:03
with Donald Trump launching a massive military strike against Iran as war is back and Donald Trump destroys our economy. Donald Trump posted the following, and I'm going to show you what MAGA Mike's been posting. Donald Trump writes, the United States military has never been stronger, even more powerful.

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