Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And so it is the ultimate corruption where he is essentially getting access to the federal budget and getting to make recommendations or even decisions about what contracts should continue and what contracts should not. Do you think he's going to say, you know what, my contract is a little excessive. It's wasteful. Let's cancel that.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
There's no question they're laying the foundation to defy or ignore court orders. And just to be clear, you know, our rule of law, which is the basic foundation of our democracy and our economy and our criminal justice system. I mean, if you do not have the rule of law in control, you are no longer a democracy. And
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Our rule of law depends on the respect for judicial orders, dating back to Marbury versus Madison, when our separation of powers was clarified to mean that we're co-equal branches of government and the judiciary determines whether or not the laws are being complied with. It's like, for example, you were playing basketball or in any sport. Why do you have a referee? Why do you have an umpire?
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Right? You want someone who is neutral, experienced, educated, qualified because they've all been confirmed by the Senate to make the determination. Should Elon Musk make the determination as to whether what he is doing is lawful or breaks the law? Of course not. That's why you have referees and umpires to call those balls and strikes. And so it's an absurd allegation that J.D.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Vance and Elon Musk are starting to set up. But the reason they're doing it is to build the case to defy court orders. And among all of the terrible things that have been going on during the first three weeks, Ben, that would be a true constitutional crisis that we have never faced before.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Well, there are a number of different things that we are trying to do. Really, all of them are directed at putting pressure on the Republicans. I understand everyone's frustration. Certainly we are incredibly frustrated. That doesn't even begin to describe the emotions that I feel about what's going on.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And we are out there holding press conferences, gaining attention, amplifying the lawlessness that's going on, the true effort by Elon Musk and Donald Trump to dismantle and overtake our government, undermine Congress and our power at the purse. Ultimately, Donald Trump doesn't have another election. Elon Musk is not an elected official.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
They care far less about public outcry than a Republican senator or a Republican member of Congress who does have an election coming up. And ultimately, a lot of what we're doing in the courts is to stop or at least slow down everything that's going on so that we can figure out what is going on. Part of the reason why all these judges are ruling against the Trump administration
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
is no one has any idea what Musk is doing with his teenage minions behind the scenes. And we get little bits and pieces of, oh, it's only their access to our entire federal government pay system is only access only. But we have no idea whether that's true and what that means. We don't know what the national security implications are here.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
We don't know whether personal information data is going to be used by Musk, you know, for his X to his algorithm through AI to target Americans with specific ways. I mean, there's so many different things that could happen and we don't know.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
But ultimately, it is incumbent upon the congressional Republicans to make a decision as to whether or not they want Congress to continue as a legitimate branch of the federal government. Are they willing to neutralize, to eliminate their own power in fealty to Donald Trump.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And so a lot of what we are doing is working with all those on the outside, building opposition, making our voices heard, because that will have an impact on Republicans in Congress, even if it doesn't have as much of an impact on Donald Trump. And at some point, these Republicans are going to see the poll numbers going down for Trump, going down for their party, going down for themselves.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And they're going to have to make a decision. Am I going to continue to be a spineless wimp and just do whatever Donald Trump says to me, even though that's against the authority that I have right now? It undermines that authority. Or do I want to get reelected? And for a lot of my colleagues, reelection is a big motivator. And so that's really where our efforts are geared to make them stand up.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And Speaker Johnson referenced yesterday that, you know, we have a process, we have a court, there's an appeal process that they can go through, but that we do need to make sure that the rule of law continues and that's by respecting court opinions.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
I think it's important for your viewers to understand that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act targets effectively bribery of international governments by businesses that do business as well in the United States.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
It would lead to complete lawlessness and it would allow the larger corporations to have an advantage economically over smaller businesses, both here and elsewhere in countries around the world. It would completely eviscerate the sort of equality that our economy is founded on, that business is founded on. It is a very, very important statute that levels the playing field, that stops corruption.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And it should be no surprise to any of us now that Donald Trump is trying to dismantle all forms of accountability against corruption. Taking out the FCPA is one. Firing all the inspectors general is another. He fired yesterday the director of the Office of Government Ethics. He has consistently been he's fired all sorts of prosecutors and FBI agents who have tried to hold him accountable.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
He actually said yesterday that the January 6th defendants were victims of an attack by law enforcement. that they were not the ones who actually assaulted law enforcement. He is literally trying to whitewash history and to convince Americans that what they see with their own eyes is not what they're really seeing. And of course, we all know what that's for, Ben, and why he's doing that.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
As he is installing Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, people who have made already representations and sworn to do his dirty work. He does not want there to be any accountability for their efforts at revenge and retribution to allow him to effectively take full control of the federal government. That is what this process is setting up. And it is very clear that's where he's going.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Look, I think it's kind of the typical Donald Trump playbook at this point, which is childish insults, all sorts of allegations which are designed to distract from the dismantling of our federal government that Elon Musk is trying to do. It's somewhat laughable for him to refer to all Democrats as corrupt,
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Yeah, there are actual signs of hope. And I don't want everybody to be too discouraged. Your voice matters. Our voices matter. You look at what happened with the freeze of the Office of Management and Budget and all federal funding being frozen.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
There was an uproar from everyday Americans all across the spectrum when their Social Security payments were stopped, when their SNAP food benefits were stopped, when the Medicare and Medicaid portals were not available. when every single nonprofit organization that depends on already promised government funding stopped receiving it. And they rescinded that memo.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
So that is yet another example of how our voices can matter. The courts so far are encouraging, and I hope they hold. And then, you know, we have a budget coming up. We have government funding is expiring March 14th. And traditionally the Republicans have been unable to pass a budget themselves, even though they're in the majority.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And so if they do come to us to seek our help to fund, you know, to get this budget across, they're going to have to be open to putting some of our priorities in there. And so at that point, we get to have some leverage to take some corrective action against all of these lawless efforts.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Well, thanks for having me, Ben. It's always great to be with you. And thanks to all your subscribers for being engaged. How we save our democracy is everybody leaning in a little bit more. Don't put your head under the pillow as tempting as it is. We've got to fight back and we've got to fight back hard.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
when this is a guy who has taken over control of government contracts when he himself receives billions of dollars of government contracts. But because he's not an official government employee, he can evade the standard conflicts of interest rules that apply to all other government employees.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Terrorist is at his known location, so should be on time. Also, strike drones launch MQ-9s. MQ-9s is a weapon system, correct?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Okay. I think Applying the executive order as well as the DOD manual to this fact pattern, we clearly have weapon systems that have been identified. That is classified information. Now, the reason why it's important that this information not be disclosed is that we don't want the adversaries to know what's about to happen. Right, sir?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
I understand. In this situation, those are operational details.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
This is classified information. This is classified information. It's a weapon system as well as sequence of strikes as well as details about the operations.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
What do you make of all this mess? I got to tell you, our constituents are livid at this point. We're getting tremendous outreach. The main reason being that I'm talking about even people in the middle, people who might have voted for Trump. We're hearing from, for instance, small businesses. We're one of the biggest kind of concentrations of light manufacturing anywhere in the Midwest.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
and Illinois's biggest trading partner is Canada. And so we have tremendous number of exports and imports coming across the border. And these businesses are just seeing their prices skyrocket for their inputs. And now that they're having to pay a lot more to build whatever they're building, they can't sell what they're trying to sell either at the prices that they were expecting.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And meanwhile, our farmers met with me on Thursday, farmers from central and southern Illinois and complained about retaliation in the form of tariffs, counter tariffs on their goods. And so they are very upset. And then you have just residents, everyday people who are paying 27% more for eggs at the grocery store, a lot more for groceries in general.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I had the president of the local 881 of United Food and Commercial Workers as my guest for the State of the Union. He reported that for his 35,000 workers, many of them cannot afford the groceries that they are stocking on the shelves of their grocery stores. And so this is just a complete mess. And it's why, as you saw, Trump's unfavorability is skyrocketing.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Well, I should tell you that my district is also home to one of the biggest concentrations of Ukrainian Americans, and for that matter, Eastern European Americans of any congressional district. These people are beside themselves because they see that we are basically taking the side of a dictator. communist dictator, basically, in the form of Vladimir Putin.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
They're not technically a communist country, but they just act like it. And we are disfavoring a freedom-loving democracy in the form of Ukraine. And they are beside themselves about that. And then they see that
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
What we're doing with Canada, what we're doing with our friends and partners and allies elsewhere means that whether it's Poland or whether it's any other NATO country or for that matter, whether it's South Korea or Japan or anyone else with whom we have treaty alliances can't rely on us. And that drives them insane.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And so we are kind of in this situation where they feel less safe and they're paying higher prices and they're having a harder time doing business and they're worried about their children because we just heard two nights ago that Trump is going to lay off half of the workforce of the Department of Education. Are you kidding me? This is craziness.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And this is the kind of nonsense that they're very, very upset about. And did I mention Doge and Elon Musk? When people found out about Doge and Elon Musk having access to their private computers, identifiable information at first at the Treasury Department, we got like a thousand phone calls in 24 hours.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And, you know, that's just that's just the level of, you know, alarm on the part of people at this point.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
well or the greater good do your constituents want pain and suffering and infliction of of harm absolutely not and you know one of the worst things that i heard the other day apparently there's a report that maybe it was howard lutnik or it was scott bessen one of those billionaire cabinet secretaries actually said that we should go into a recession can you believe that
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
that somehow going into a recession would be a good thing for America. And I was saying to my friends, like we need to, We need to get back to basics here. We need to do whatever we can. We need to have a coalition to prevent recession. I call it CPR.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
We need CPR for this economy to prevent us from going into recession and preventing all the collateral damage that's about to happen in the form of unemployment and everything else.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Yeah, so I think it means a few things. First of all, I'm doing a lot of town hall meetings. A lot of them are even pop-up town hall meetings where we find out about an executive order in the morning. And then we say, look, we got to talk about this with our constituents either today or the next day.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And believe it or not, we had like 1,600 people just show up for one of these pop-up town hall meetings because of the level of concern and fear and anger and all of the above. In terms of how do we fight, I think there are a few ways that we have to fight. One, we absolutely have to lift up our voices at this point.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I've mentioned this before, but that means the average person lifting up their voices and connecting with their member of Congress on both sides of the aisle. It means us in Congress using our tools on committees to bring about accountability and transparency. We came within one vote
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
of successfully subpoenaing uh elon musk and we have to keep doing that we have to get him to testify under oath about what the hell he's doing uh at doge secondly we have to continue with the litigation both inside and outside congress third we have to use our votes and that's very important as you know we do have some leverage we need to use it accordingly and then last
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
We have to go to our Republican colleagues and we have to say, look, you have choices. You can either harm your constituents by gutting Medicaid, for instance, or you can do the right thing and oppose those moves. If you decide to do the wrong thing, we're going to hold you accountable. And that's going to be at the next elections. It could be in your primaries, whatever. But the point is that
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
We need to do everything. We need to fight in the court of public opinion. We need to fight in the legal system. And of course, we need to fight in the halls of Congress. We will never surrender. We cannot surrender.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
I got to tell you, our constituents are livid at this point. We're getting tremendous outreach. The main reason being that I'm talking about even people in the middle, people who might have voted for Trump. We're hearing from, for instance, small businesses. We're one of the biggest kind of concentrations of light manufacturing anywhere in the Midwest.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Illinois's biggest trading partner is Canada. We have a tremendous number of exports and imports coming across the border. These businesses are just seeing their prices skyrocket for their inputs. Now that they're having to pay a lot more to build whatever they're building, They can't sell what they're trying to sell either at the prices that they were expecting.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
And meanwhile, our farmers met with me on Thursday, farmers from central and southern Illinois, and complained about retaliation in the form of tariffs, counter tariffs on their goods. And so they are very upset. And then you have just residents, everyday people who are paying 27% more for eggs at the grocery store, a lot more for groceries in general. I had the president of the local
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
881 of United Food and Commercial Workers as my guest for the State of the Union. He reported that for his 35,000 workers, many of them cannot afford the groceries that they are stocking on the shelves of their grocery stores. And so this is just a complete mess. And it's why, as you saw, Trump's unfavorability is skyrocketing.
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Fox News Implodes on Air as Guests Backfire
Of course, violence is dangerous and wrong, and those who commit it should be held accountable. And there are millions of Americans right now speaking out against their health care being taken away, speaking out against money being taken away from their taxpayer pockets and being handed out in federal contracts.
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We should be having the conversation about how is it that Elon Musk, who makes $8 million a day from federal contracts, as you just said, why is he looking for even more contracts? It was just reported he's trying to land a contract with the FAA so that he can get billions of dollars for Starlink out of that.
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He was trying to land a huge contract with the State Department until he got caught by the press. We should agree, whether you're a Democratic or a Republican president, you shouldn't be allowed to appoint a billionaire to the government and then for him to look for billions of dollars in contracts for himself.
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That's corruption at its finest, and we need a Republican party and a Democratic party that's willing to speak out against that kind of corruption.
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Well, I mean, he brought hundreds of millions of dollars to his campaign.
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Thanks so much, and I appreciate your viewers for listening.
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Elon Musk makes $8 million a day from the federal government. Why are they looking at cutting Medicaid, which serves single moms, people with disabilities, or Social Security, instead of looking at the billions of dollars from the corporate class? It's because those corporations fund those Republican campaigns.
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Fox News Implodes on Air as Guests Backfire
I think that what's important for folks to know at home, again, even if you may disagree with me on this social issue or that one, is that every Republican member of Congress right now is looking to cut Medicaid.
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Fox News Implodes on Air as Guests Backfire
Over 70% of Republican voters are opposed to Medicaid cuts, but the senator from North Dakota you just had on is talking about passing a bill next week to slash Medicaid by over $800 million. I mean, how is that right? How is that representing the working class person in rural America? I don't get it.
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Look, I'm the chairman of the Progressive Caucus in Congress. I recognize some of the viewers at home disagree with me on a variety of social issues, but I think we can agree that Republican members of Congress have no business going along with Elon Musk slashing Social Security, destroying Medicaid and Medicare, firing veterans, all to give out tax breaks to billionaires.
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That's the message that Bernie Sanders has been consistent about, and I believe that should be the new message of the Democratic Party, which I think could bring some conservatives back into the Democratic Party if we agree
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that these programs we all pay for since literally World War II, Social Security, should be expanded and protected, not ransacked by billionaires that want more money for themselves. You should work to be able to keep your money, not to make Elon Musk richer. You should be paying taxes to improve your life, not to make some billionaire buy their 10th jet.
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You should be paying taxes to improve your life, not to make some billionaire buy their 10th jet.
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Fox News Implodes on Air as Guests Backfire
Your colleague wrote... But to be fair, though, but to be fair, President Trump and Elon Musk just announced that they are closing Social Security offices and... going to ask seniors and people with disabilities to go check in in person at social security offices that they've closed. And in rural areas or really suburban areas, that may be really hard to do.
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And then they'll call those social security recipients, quote, fraudsters. and cut off their benefits. That's what they've announced. And Commerce Secretary, who's a billionaire himself, just said on television, oh, if my grandma misses a Social Security check, I think he said my mother-in-law misses a Social Security check, she won't complain. Well, because he's the Commerce Secretary.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
They are. You know, I think that you might have seen it, but as polls or poll numbers are dipping now, as people are paying attention to what's happening here, you know, some people talk about DEI. I also talk about it, you know, Doge, Elon and incompetence. And it is out of control, my friend. And we're seeing it kind of lay down. wreckage across the government landscape.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
My constituents made almost 1,000 phone calls into our office the day that they learned that Elon Musk had access to private information on the Federal Payment Service. They don't want any part of that. And these are Republicans, Democrats, and independents who are calling in. They aren't just Democrats. They aren't just liberals. They are people across the political spectrum.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
The more they learn, I think there is buyer's remorse taking hold as well.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Yeah, I do. And I think that these town halls are an indication that, you know, constituents are restless. They don't like what they're seeing. They don't like the fact that, you know, the Republicans are proposing upwards of two point three trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid. Think about that. That's almost a third of Medicaid. That would mean tens of millions of Americans losing jobs.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
access to their sole source of health care. And so, Ben, you know this. This is a program, numerous programs like this touch Democrats, Republicans, Independents in blue states and red states. And I think that people are suddenly kind of becoming aware of just the consequences of what's about to happen. And why do they want these cuts? That's the other question that people are asking.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Well, it turns out the answer is to fund tax cuts, tax cuts for billionaires, oligarchs, broligarchs, special interests, you name it. And that just causes the smoke to come out of people's ears as well.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
It is. We were one vote short of having him testify before the Oversight Committee when we tried to subpoena him. But can I say one other thing that is wigging people out, really getting people upset, which is avian flu. This avian flu thing is out of control. It's causing the price of eggs and other groceries to skyrocket. For that matter, you might have seen this, but
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Prices have gone up since Donald Trump became president. They've gone up. Not only that, but the stock market gains have disappeared since Donald Trump became president. And so people are starting to notice that their 401ks are down. Prices of groceries are up. Sickness increases. is up through avian flu, but also there's outbreaks of salmonella, outbreaks of listeria.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And what is this guy focused on? He actually has an executive order banning paper straws. And I'm not making that up. I actually, I hope that your viewers go and look at this. He has an executive order on paper straws. So that's kind of the types of priorities that Donald Trump has right now.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Because he'd have to tell the truth, Ben. He'd be under oath. You'd have to put your hand up and actually swear to tell the truth under penalty of perjury. And that is why he's not appearing. Who's protecting him, though? Who's protecting him? our Republican colleagues. They don't want him to come up there and have to testify.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And oh, by the way, he's constantly threatening these Republicans if they don't do things that he wants. You may be getting to this, but one of the reasons why the Republicans in the Senate rubber-stamped Such controversial figures as Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel and RFK Jr.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
is because Elon Musk threatened each of the wavering senators with primary battles that he would fund with his PAC. And so he's threatening people and they're doing his bidding. And one of them is not bringing him to testify before the House.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Well, what I tell them is that please hold us accountable in Washington. I'm talking about Republicans and Democrats. We have to get this better. We have to do something about this. This is unacceptable. And that starts with, I think, three things. One, we have to lift up.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
and speak up and speak out about these stories that are repeatedly popping up about people getting hurt by these moves with executive orders. And we have to rally public opinion around reversing these executive orders and these decisions by the Trump administration.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Secondly, there is a litigation strategy, both inside of Congress from the committees, but also outside of Congress from the state attorneys generals and not-for-profits Third, we have our votes and we're going to be required to vote on a budget. We're going to be required to vote on a debt ceiling in the next month.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And I personally think that those votes, you know, obviously, if there's a shutdown or if we can't get a debt ceiling increase, that lies at the feet of the Republicans because they have a majority. They have a trifecta. However, if they're going to come to us to rescue them, there are going to be conditions. And then fourth, we have to hold them accountable.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
We have to make sure that everyone knows exactly how our Republican colleagues are voting, especially in those marginal districts, because just as there is a Project 2025, there needs to be a Project 2026 taking back the House and then Project 2028 taking back the White House. That is what we need to be focused on right now. All four of those things.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
You will see a menu of options that will come out in March and it will be littered with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are going to really not be for. But hey, if we don't sacrifice, if we don't understand that this is going to be a painful process, nothing's going to change.