Democratic Congress Member Garcia
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So it's your testimony that less than two weeks ago you were on a signal chat that had all of this information about F-18s and MQ-9 Reapers and targets on strike, and you in that two-week period simply forgot that that was there. That's your testimony?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
That was not your testimony. Your testimony was that you were not aware of anything related to weapons packages, targets, and timing.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
contact the defense secretary or others after this specific military planning was put out and say hey we should be doing this in a skiff there was no classified material that was shared in that so then if there was no classified in material share it with the committee you can't have it both ways these are important jobs this is our national security
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
bobbing and weaving and trying to, you know, filibuster your answer.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
The time Mr. Witkoff was actually in Russia during this chat discussion, was he not?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Was he on his personal phone at the time?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Well, it's my understanding that he was indeed in Russia. Director Gabbard, you were also traveling during this discussion, correct?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
You on March 15th, as DNI, retweeted a post from Ian Miles Chong, who is listed on RT, that's Russia Today's website, as quote, a political and cultural commentator who has contributed content to RT since at least 2022.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Director Gabbard, do you think that it's responsible for you as head of the intelligence community and the principal's presidential intelligence advisor to retweet posts from individuals affiliated with Russian state media?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Can I, just so that we don't have a lack of confusion amongst our allies and enemies and us, can I act perhaps that you not think that you should be saying one thing on your personal account than you say officially?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Good to see many of you again. And thank you for enduring two long days. I will note I always use fire emojis when I see terrorists getting killed.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So those same troops that you are proud of, do you regret putting information like the ones you did in the signal chat that could endanger those same American service members?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Well, Shannon, I have, I mean, I have two problems with that concept. One, it just looks like an episode of The Sopranos, right? Give us your minerals or we're not going to help you fight a bloody butcher. I mean, is this really what we want the greatest country in history to be known for, for like, you know, some mafia thing? Look, we've always stood with the good guys.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
We stood with Churchill against Hitler in World War I. We stood with the good guys. Even when we've gotten it wrong in Vietnam, we were standing with the good guys against the Viet Cong. In Iraq, we were going after Saddam Hussein. Now this president is standing with the bad guy.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
He's saying Zelensky is the problem when Zelensky, with very few resources, is trying to stand up for democracy against a totalitarian butcher. What really worries me, Shannon, though, is what do you think President Xi is thinking? Because President Xi wakes up every single morning thinking, is today the day I go into Taiwan?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
First of all, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, because as we've been discussing, we have to stop this reckless Republican budget from going forward. And that's going to be on the floor on Tuesday. Now, there are ongoing discussions being led by Rosa DeLauro, top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee. to see if an enlightened agreement can be reached in advance of March 14th.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
And we'll see what takes place. What we do know is that the Republicans have the House, the Senate and the presidency. It is their responsibility to fund the government.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse on Live TV from Cross-Exam
Du hast all diese Fragen von meinen Kollegen mit Bezug auf diese 165.000 Dollar in Kampagnen-Donationen nach der Erklärung, dass du nominiert worden bist, ist die Angst um die Möglichkeit, dass Versuche gemacht wurden, um das Geld zu verdienen. I just want to give you the chance to go over this with me. Did you promise any tax promoter you would help them if you got confirmed?
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Trump Witnesses Collapse on Live TV from Cross-Exam
Okay. So you didn't meet with anybody when you were in town for the inauguration and promised them a private letter Okay. Okay. Mr. Long, our staff investigators have on tape now the tax promoter saying you met with him at the inauguration and promised him a favorable private letter ruling.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse on Live TV from Cross-Exam
We also have on tape the White River CFO who gave you the thousands of dollars that he expects favorable treatment of these fake tribal criminals. Democratic Senator Baldwin, let's play it.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? Yeah.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Are you? Yeah. That's not a powerful conference. The Supreme Court said to bring him back. He's defying the Constitution.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Trump don't care. If I get an order for $1,200 and I just say no, does that stand up? Because he's got an order from the Supreme Court and he's just said no.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Guatemala is an independent country. Can you speak up, please?
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
The president of that country is not subject to our U.S. Supreme Court. We're paying him to keep him down there.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
I think the general population is sick and tired of hearing about the tax cuts for the wealthy, the ultra-wealthy, the uber-rich, whatever you want to call them. When you start nitpicking about whether some single mom or single dad or somebody with somebody in prison is getting $70 too much food stamps, it doesn't even buy you anything at the grocery store.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
They take advantage of people all the time.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
But 50% of the seniors do want it.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Let me explain why I said 50%. 50% of the seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Bakersfield, this is a matter of fact. Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. And if he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Yes, sir. They go up about almost 8%, I believe is the specific calculation that you did. And is it true that this failure on the part of Republicans will raise premiums not just for those, that they'll raise them really for nearly everyone in the marketplace, not just for those who receive the subsidies? Okay. That's correct.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
If my understanding is correct, failure to extend this policy will result in an increase in the number of uninsured Americans. Is that right? That's correct, sir.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
You know, it's like it's like as they say, it's like bizarro world where you're just an. what completely two opposite worlds. You've got the Republicans saying the big, beautiful bill, and it's gonna improve the economy. It's gonna do all these great things. And then you have the Democrats like myself saying, this is gonna massively increase the deficit.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
You say you wanna be the party working class, but you're cutting the taxes for the wealthiest people in the United States of America again. You're paying for it, by kicking people off of their health insurance, some of the people that need it the most, almost 14 million people estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
And there's a whole bunch of provisions that they promised they were gonna do. For me, the state and local tax deduction is the big one that the president said, we're gonna get the state and local tax deduction back. And they're not doing it. They're only increasing it from 10,000 to 15,000, 30,000 if you're married.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
But there's at least four Republicans that have come out and said, we're not voting for this bill unless you make it higher. So it's just, it's the same old divided system. why can't we just like sit down and work together with each other? Why do you have to reduce the taxes for people who make a million dollars a year from 39.6 down to 37? I mean, why? You know, they don't need it.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
And you can pay for some other good stuff.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Well, Trump came out and said, you know, 100% of the tips are going to be yours. And so what's going to happen is you're going to have to continue to report your tips. You're going to have to pay your Social Security tax and the other taxes you pay, they're your payroll taxes. Your employer is going to have to pay those taxes.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
And then when it comes time for your income tax at the end, they're going to say, oh, you don't have to pay the other taxes on those. But the taxes are
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
that you know and that's it's a wonderful thing to try and reduce people's taxes especially people on tips or people who are getting overtime same same thing you're going to still have to pay your payroll taxes but why can't we instead pay for this by increasing the taxes back to what they were before 2017 back to 39.6 for the people making a million dollars a year i don't make that doesn't make any sense to me i mean why can't we just
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Why can't we work together? And how many times have we heard about the deficit? The deficit, the deficit's gonna destroy our country. It's our biggest threat that we face in our country, the deficit. They're increasing the deficit by $4 trillion. So to put that in perspective, the deficit in the past when we had to do like some big projects and stuff was 1.5 trillion.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
They're gonna do a $4 trillion deficit in one year. It's gonna explode the deficit. It's just, I don't get it.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
It's awful. You know, there are people that are on Medicaid. There are people that got the Affordable Care Act benefits when it was extended to their states. Like the chairman of this committee is from Missouri. And this guy, Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, a big Republican, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times yesterday and said, you know, we don't want to still be the corporatists.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
in the Republican Party. Let's look out for the working families. And we passed a law, a constitutional amendment in Missouri to give them the right to have Medicaid used to pay for the Affordable Care Act for people at certain lower income levels. And they're gonna be cutting it from the federal government.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
So they're gonna have to pay for it at the Missouri level if they wanna conform with their constitution. It's just nonsensical. Why would you make, think about that.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
14 million people, you know, any individual stories that is of people like trying to get by, and they have some tragic thing happened in their family, and they somebody's got cancer, they get hit by a car, or somebody's got cerebral palsy, somebody's got dementia or something, you know, some major problem, and now they're gonna lose their health insurance. That's it's just, it's rotten.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Does this tax bill continue the payroll tax on people's tips? Yes, it does. Overtime. The president said your overtime will be tax-free. Does this bill continue the payroll tax on overtime?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
I don't want to take up too much time on this, but let me just tell people, state and local tax deduction was the first deduction given to people in 1913. So when they first started the federal income tax code, they said, we're going to tax your income at the federal level. And the governors and the mayors said, don't do that. Don't do that.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
We want to tax them at the local level because we've got to pay for the schools and garbage and things like that. We don't want you to tax the federal level. Just use tariffs the way you always used to in the old days.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
They said, no, we're gonna deduct, we're gonna let you deduct your state and local taxes, the money you've already paid in taxes, from your income so you don't have to pay taxes on the taxes you've already paid. That was in place for 100 years. In 2017, Donald Trump and the Republicans capped that deduction at $10,000. That's a killer.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
for people in New York and California and Illinois and Massachusetts and other places that have unions, other places that have low rates of uninsured people that insure our children, insure our adults. So we have higher taxes to pay for these. We have more mass transit, more infrastructure. So we have higher costs because of those things. Now they took it away.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
They said, we're gonna cap it at $10,000. That made people's taxes actually go up. So a bunch of people came out and said, we're against this. We want to get the state and local tax deduction back again. President Trump came to Long Island in 2024 during the campaign and said, I'm going to get your salt back. I'm going to get it back. I'm going to make things better for people here.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
We're going to get salt back. And a bunch of Republicans in this Congress came out and said, we're not voting for this bill unless you give us our state and local tax deduction back. And they said, you've double crossed us. You've only increased it from 10,000 to 15,000 for a person filing singly, or 30,000 if you're a married couple. And they said, this is an insult. This is unfair to us.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
And it is unfair. So I'm hoping that these Republicans that have stood up and said, we're not voting for this unless we get solved, will stay strong and they will hold people's feet to the fire and get us our state and local tax deduction back again and again.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Just raise the taxes on the richest people in the country back to what it was under Clinton, what it was under Obama when the economy was booming. 37 back to 39.6, it will generate hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
The president said he's going to remove taxes on Social Security. Does this bill remove taxes on Social Security benefits?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
The bottom line, some Republicans are going to try and say this bill is going to pay for itself. because we're gonna have so much economic growth, their whole trickle down thing, supply side economics that never has worked ever before, it's not gonna work this time. And the cuts that we're doing is gonna pay for, it's not gonna pay for itself. And how do we know it's not gonna pay for itself?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Because the Republicans are putting in this bill. an increase in the debt ceiling to allow the president to borrow $4 trillion. I know you hear these numbers, trillions, billions, millions, $4 trillion. The total debt of the United States of America right now is in about 30 some odd trillion dollars. They want to add $4 trillion to it. They want to increase it by 10% in just one year.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
That's never happened before. It's the biggest increase in the deficit that's ever happened in the history of the country, just from these tax cuts that they're providing in this bill. So it's all... It's all phony baloney.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
I mean, it's just really just it's heartbreaking how many people are going to have to suffer because of this bill and because of, as you said, the broken promises that have been made.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
What do you think that you're going to have a fight in the House first over the next week? about whether to increase the state and local tax deduction or not. And people are going to try and get it increased. And there's going to be a bunch of other moderate Republicans who are saying, you're cutting Medicaid too much. You're cutting Medicaid too much.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Too many people in my district are going to suffer because of this. Then it's going to go over to the Senate where there's going to be even more pressure on the cuts to Medicaid that they're not going to want to cut Medicaid. So a lot of these Republicans may be walking the plank in the House only to have the Senate try and change it later on. Or
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
They're all going to walk in single file and do what the president asked them to do when he calls them up and says, hey, you got to do this.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Congratulations on the Webby.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
The president and the Republicans.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Mr. Barthold, that this legislation fails to extend the enhanced tax credits that lower the cost of insurance for millions of Americans who purchase their own coverage through the marketplace. That's correct. And when the Republicans permit these credits to expire in a mere seven months. What is the effect on health insurance premiums for those individuals that rely on the marketplace today?
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America, please?
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Mr. Chairman, you are out of order. Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
The second form, ma'am, reclaiming my time. Ma'am, please, ma'am, reclaiming my time. I'd like you to avoid the filibuster so I can get to all my questions, please.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
This is where Sean Connery goes back to Alcatraz because he originally escaped Alcatraz and needed like an expert on chemical weapons. Maybe the president was just Netflixing and chilling, like watching The Rock, which is not to be confused with The Rock. That's a different person. And then the president's really excited about these sharks. He's talking about all the sharks and the person escaped.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
He lost his clothing. So sharks, they don't have laser beams on. They don't have laser beams, but maybe the sharks are going to be there. So this is just all ridiculous. But then all of a sudden after that, we heard like, oh, we're going to tariff the movies. Well, hold on a second. Why would we tariff the movies? This is where the president is getting his ideas from.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
We can't tariff the policy idea making of the presidency. And look, I know what my colleagues are going to say. They're going to say, Jared, just let the president cook. This is 40 chess he's playing. And I'm going to say, maybe he's just watching late night movies, perhaps.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Okay, I don't really know where to begin. We've got a lot of ground to cover in about five minutes. So let's go. I've got three statements that I want to know if you agree or disagree with. And I want to just go down the row. Yes or no. Does cutting pay typically assist in recruiting a workforce? Yes or no.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Thank you. It sounds like a low IQ implementation to me. So let's go to the next one. Does poor working conditions assist with recruitment? Yes or no.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Sounds like another low IQ implementation to me. And finally, I'm going to start with Mr. Potter because I don't know how this is going to go. Does union busting help with recruitment?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Okay. So again, another low IQ implementation. I just want to be clear that The American people should know that these are all Trump 2.0 policies. So when we say that he's failed, let me tell you, we got receipts and those are some of the receipts. So when we start talking.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Perhaps I'll try something a little different this time because I have made repeated offers to the chairman to try to engage him in debate. I've made good faith efforts to convince my colleagues that they should rise to the occasion and on behalf of their constituents, be willing to defend their values, defend the positions that they have taken. But that has fallen, unfortunately.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
on deaf ears and just blanket refusal on the part of my Republican colleagues to engage in any kind of debate. So what I will just do, I will give my Republican colleagues an opportunity to explain to their constituents, to their colleagues and to the American people why they believe this amendment should not be approved by the committee.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
statements that Mr. Ales had made in the prior year. One was, you could not pay me to marry outside my ethnicity. Another was that he wanted to normalize Indian hate. A third was, just for the record, I was racist before it was cool. And another was, I just want a eugenic immigration policy. Is that too much to ask? This man resigned shortly after that article was published.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Okay. I appreciate that. Although it appears that he then later turned up, that he was rehired, I guess, and that he's continuing.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Okay. But he was continuing to do work. But in this instance, HHS and three other departments. I have no idea. I didn't follow his career. OK, well, you didn't catch J.D. Vance saying that he didn't think he should be terminated. Did you miss that, too? I don't recall that. All right. Do you recall Mr. Trump saying that he. should have a second chance. I don't recall that. No, okay.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Do you believe that the Constitution grants everyone in our country the right to due process, including non-citizens?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Yes or no. Do you believe the... Yes, ma'am. We have not conducted any kind of empowerment. Mr. Chairman. Okay. Secretary Noem, I'm just looking for a yes or no here. Do you believe the Constitution guarantees due process to everyone in America?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Yes or no. Okay, ma'am, I'll take that as a no. Excuse me, ma'am, I'm trying to ascertain your understanding of the law as it applies to your department. And you as its leader should be able to give us a yes or no answer because judge after judge has ruled that the law is not being followed. Do you believe that the U.S. government has the authority to deport American citizens?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
No, and we are not deporting U.S. citizens. I'm so happy to hear that you do not believe that the law gives you that authority because the federal government has no authority under U.S. laws to deport any American citizen. And as I know, everyone viewing this hearing today knows that several American citizens have been deported to date. Secretary Noem, that was not a question.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Secretary Noem, that oath that we both swore before taking office was to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not the president. not a political party, the Constitution. And that's what we're going to keep doing here at the Appropriations Committee. Thank you. I yield back.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Were any of the individuals who were deported, who had U.S. citizen children deported with them, were they given an opportunity to sign that form?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
And did ICE follow through on the policy?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, reclaiming my time. I told you at the top of this, ma'am, ma'am, reclaiming my time. I said the questions are really simple, yes or no. Was that form used in any of those cases? I will get back to you on that specific form.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Reclaiming my time. I'd like you to avoid the filibuster so I can get to all my questions. Answering your questions.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
moscow it should probably just be a stand-up cameo this is funny stuff right here play this clip i was listening to the ranking member and she brought up uh something about trump talking about alcatraz and of course look this is just another distraction to divert attention away from the tariffs or rising prices or the struggle on main street but since we're having a hearing on prisons it's lucky timing for me so
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Three times more expensive than any prison to operate in 1959 Alcatraz was. It needs about $250 million to shore up the infrastructure and utilities. All food and water has to be barged in. Sewage has to be barged out. The facility is almost 100 years old. And so I don't get it. In the days of Doge where we're cutting budgets, we got to find savings. Now we're going to what?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
We're going to cut Medicaid and SNAP so that we can pour money into Alcatraz. First of all, have you been to Alcatraz recently? It literally is a, it's a rust box walking around. You need a tetanus shot just to go into the building. Do we still give tetanus shots or has RFK gotten rid of those? I can't, I can't keep up. And so listen, Where did the president get this idea all of a sudden?
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Where did he get the idea? Perhaps he was watching Escape from Alcatraz, right? And I brought boards because some people are visual learners. Perhaps he was watching Escape from Alcatraz by Clint Eastwood. Actually, funny part about that, it was actually on television in South Florida. It was on PBS South Florida over the weekend when Trump was at Mar-a-Lago.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
In fact, he made his announcement just hours after it aired. You know PBS, the programming that he's trying to get rid of, so just in case you're keeping up, right? It's two dolls for girls and zero Elmo's, okay? But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't that. Maybe he was watching The Rock with Sean Connery. You know this one.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a simple but clear message. First of all, I just got to clear up a few things. Instead of the president cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to try to cosplay as an actual president of these United States. That means that he may have to do a little bit of research and decide that he wants to understand that he swore an oath.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
And this oath was to protect and defend the Constitution. That is the oath that he was supposedly taking on January 20th, as well as we may want the president to look into what the Declaration of Independence was about. We may want him to understand that there was a foundational document as relates to self-determination of those who had recently gained their independence from Great Britain.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
I would hope that he would maybe spend a few of these days in this first hundred days. And it is sad to say that it's his second term that he doesn't understand that the Declaration of Independence is about this idea that we are entitled to the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that's.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
There's no question that Maga Mike Johnson right now is very nervous about what's happening with the tariffs. He can't even put a couple sentences together to oppose. It's going to be a destructive economic move by Donald Trump. Anyone that you talk to, any economists, any House Republican in a quiet moment when they're just to themselves will tell you that they are dreading this tariff process.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
policy that's going to be put in place. And let's be clear about what's going to happen. It's essentially a additional tax on goods. Prices are going to go up on everyday goods even more than they are right now.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And the amount of chaos, the amount of shock this is going to actually have into the supply chain system is going to be incredibly devastating to an industry that just started recovering from the COVID pandemic and is actually back now on track. Let's think about this. You have ports across this country, especially on the West Coast and the East Coast, of which trade drives the economy.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Trade drives, we know drives our economic growth for so much of the country. And now you're causing chaos, confusion. Major retailers don't know how much they should order as far as goods. What are people actually going to pay for? And you have businesses not able to actually anticipate what the needs are of the consumer. So it's going to be an incredibly chaotic day.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
The markets are going to react, I mean, horrifically as they already are. And Donald Trump is essentially saying that he doesn't care if he drives us into a recession.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
I mean, people are fired up. In the case of Young Kim, everyone's asking the same question. Where is Young Kim? Why won't she meet her constituents? Why would she refuse to answer questions? And these are not just Democrats and independents. These are also Republican constituents of hers. She's choosing to cowardly hide behind any sort of accountability.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
She's choosing to hide, not answer questions, and people are demanding answers. They're wondering why Medicaid's being attacked and cut. They're wondering why the Department of Education, which impacts neighborhood school, is being cut, and Young Kim is nowhere to be found. And on terrorists, they have no idea why the president is doing this. They're complaining, as they should.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
The prices of eggs, of groceries, of housing, construction of housing, by the way, is going to go up because the materials that we need are going to have tariffs on them. So housing construction and the prices of homes will skyrocket. And so people are angry. I think there's a growing consensus, even amongst Republicans, that Donald Trump has no idea what he's doing on the economy.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And all he cares about is giving Elon Musk a big tax break.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
No, I think that's absolutely right. Look, I've been saying from day one that we've got to match the energy on the ground. We've got to fight like hell. We cannot continue to allow Republicans to just steamroll over us. And, you know, we've always been this party of respectability and, you know, and doing the right thing and making sure that we're bipartisan. That's over.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And people on the ground have no interest in us holding hands with Republicans as they steamroll over our priorities and our rights. They want us to fight. And I think you're seeing a lot of Democrats now taking that fight directly to Republicans, directly to Elon Musk. I mean, as you know, I'm being... criminally investigated for calling Elon Musk a dick for crying out loud.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
I mean, this is insanity what they were trying to do to weaponize the Justice Department, going after folks like AOC and Jasmine Crockett and others for just speaking truth and for taking on Elon Musk. And so I'm really happy to see Kim Jeffries, our leader, Democrats out there just pounding the pavement. And you're going to see a lot more of us in these Republican districts.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Like I've told others out in the Palm Springs area, in the desert area, in Riverside County, Ken Calvert is next. And I look forward to going to his district here in the next couple of weeks.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Just to continue to stay engaged, stay loud, demand more of us, demand more of these Republicans. We only need three of these Republicans to stop the massive tax giveaway that Donald Trump is trying to put in place with Elon Musk. And so just stay engaged. I know it's frustrating. I'm frustrated too. I get mad and pissed as well, but we got to keep fighting like hell.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And so thanks for everything that you guys are doing and let's stay engaged.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Thank you, Chairman. Tulsi, you and I came into the Congress together in 2013. And Cash, you and I, I was serving on the Intelligence Committee when you worked on the Intelligence Committee. And John, you and I are both from Texas, and we both served together on the Intelligence Committee.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Y'all, the idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, y'all know is a lie. That's ridiculous. I've seen things much less sensitive be presented to us with high classification. And to say that it isn't is a lie to the country.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
They are defunding Planned Parenthood. They are ending tons of Medicaid coverage for 13.7 million Americans, including Affordable Care Act coverage as well. And if you want to get an abortion and have a silver plan on a health care plan that you paid for, you will also be affected by this legislation as well.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
also allowing suppressors on guns to be deregulated to some of the largest amounts that we have seen since the 1930s. This is just a Christmas bill. This is just a Christmas treat.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
And so I want people to understand, for my Republican colleagues who are sure what is in and not in this bill, In this process that has been this rushed, when you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund Planned Parenthood and to take away healthcare from 13.7 million Americans. And when this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Breaking yet another promise, Republicans are cutting Medicare by $500 billion. On October 1st of this year, every Medicare health care provider will see a 4% cut, and that will occur year after year after year as seniors try to find someone who will accept Medicare. And on January the first, millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act lose their access to a family physician.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Medicaid for those in nursing homes for half the babies born in my hometown of Austin, cut. Almost 14 million Americans losing their access to health care. And the new Trump school voucher sabotage plan atop state vouchers incentivizes removing students from public schools.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Meanwhile, our national debt soaring by trillions from Republicans who talk fiscal responsibility but serving their cult leader The deficit hawks have become chicken hawks tonight in submission to Trump, the self-described king of debt, all to reward billionaires with even more tax breaks.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
So buckle up, America, and put your seat in the upright position, because with the passage of this bill, the golden age of America is ready for takeoff.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My Democrat colleagues have challenged why the deregulation of silencers is in this bill and why are we removing the $200 tax? Well, under the law, they are firearms and therefore protected by another law enacted in 1791 called our Second Amendment of our beloved Constitution.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and neither shall it be taxed. Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 declared that the power to tax includes the power to destroy. If you can tax it, then you can destroy it. You can raise the tax so high that almost no one can afford it, and then you really don't have a right at all.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
But the Second Amendment is an unalienable constitutional right, God-given, that governments are required to protect, not to tax. The Supreme Court in the Heller decision of 2008 declared the Second Amendment to be an individual constitutional right, further protecting it from taxation, just like the right to speak and the right to vote.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
This bill simply restores that right from over 90 years of draconian tax. My Democrat colleagues have asked, how did this get in the bill? What was the deal and who asked for it? No deal. I believe the speaker with the purest of motives simply wanted to restore a constitutional right. And who asked? Me, I asked. I yield.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Speaker, perhaps it's because it's now past 4 a.m., but I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone. We have 13.7 million Americans, at least, who are going to lose their health insurance because of this bill. Another $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare on top of that. And what is one of their last speakers talking about? A tax cut if you buy silencers. This is bizarre.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
The reality is millions and millions of Americans are going to lose their health coverage, all to help subsidize tax cuts for billionaires, oh yes, and also tax cuts for those who buy gun silencers.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Democrat leader is mistaken. We aren't currently in the dead of night. We are voting for the one big, beautiful bill. House will be in order. We are voting for the one big beautiful bill first thing in the morning because the relief for working families simply can't wait and will work until the job's done.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
In this, you are to direct your comments to the chair.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
House will be in order. As I said, Mr. Leader, we've been very patient. I just listened to the majority leader of the other side who directed all of his comments to the chair. It is important for the decorum of the institution for you to do the same.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's telling that President Trump and his cult followers have chosen to name their bill after its size and its looks instead of its contents and its values. They don't want anybody looking inside this monstrosity.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
There's nothing beautiful or big about stripping 14 million Americans of their healthcare or removing food security from 11 million people, including 4 million kids. That's ugly. That's small.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
I know Donald Trump has increased his net worth by more than $3 billion since taking office from his global crypto scam, and that yesterday he brought home a $400 million jumbo jet from the monarch dictator of Qatar, a flying constitutional violation packed with threats of espionage and surveillance.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
But there's nothing big or beautiful about plundering the wealth of the people of America to give to the people who have already profited from Donald Trump's prior schemes.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office, and of the 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants. So the complete artifice that the other side is attempting to convince you is that Almost 14 million Americans will lose their health care, but don't worry about it. They're all illegals.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
They're all people who are defrauding the system. It's completely false and every independent source has verified that it is false.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Gentleman yields back. Gentlelady from Indiana.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
Thank you so much. And I thank the ranking member for yielding his time. 13.7 million Americans. 13.7 million Americans are the number of people in this country whose health care are going to be stripped in this bill. Now Republicans are going to try to tell you every single distraction in the book from that essential number.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
I want people at home to understand that Medicaid and the federal matching funds for Medicaid can make up 30 to 40% of some of the state budgets that we have going on back in your home. Republicans have put this bill together, rushed it together in a matter of hours on the back of a napkin, shaken it, walking out of the White House, and brought it right here to this floor.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
I will hand the mic over, yield my time to any of my Republican colleagues that want to address the amount of money that their tax paying citizens are going to have to pay in increased premiums for their healthcare.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
If anybody wants to mention, we have the numbers, everybody here has the numbers, how much your constituents are going to have to pay more every year in healthcare because of this bill. I don't know the numbers for my district. It's going to be a 50% increase, over $400 in my district.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
And that's actually not even close to how much in many of the Republican districts there's going to be an increase. I would yield the mic.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
I think we're 78% in my district. 78% in Mr. McGovern's district.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
Maybe none of the Republican members want to mention it, but the gentleman, Republican gentleman from New York, there would be a 44% increase, $2,000 a year hit to his constituents and their healthcare costs. The distinguished gentleman from Virginia, His constituents would face an increase in $770 a year in their healthcare premiums.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
The distinguished Republican chairwoman of this committee, a 60% increase in healthcare premiums. And that's on average. The distinguished Republican congresswoman here from Minnesota
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
was recently told here by the committee on the budget that a 60-year-old couple with a joint income of $85,000 a year in her district would see an $11,000 a year increase in their costs while we're giving tax cuts to billionaires. And what bothers me the most is that we want to hide it.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
Nobody wants here to talk about the fact that they're jacking up insurance costs on their own constituents while giving a billionaire a tax break.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
Nobody on the Republican side pushing this bill wants to have an in-person town hall and look their constituents in the face and explain to them why they want to hand Elon Musk another $25 billion contract while jacking up your health insurance costs, not just by hundreds, but by thousands of dollars. I yield back.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
Hold on. We're talking about in the context of immigration cases.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
Yeah, that's correct.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
The judge can set the security at whatever level he wants. What's typically happening in these cases is he's just waving it. No one's putting it up, and they're getting this injunction that applies nationwide, which is the concern. I hear you. Are you okay with the nationwide injunction issued by one single federal judge? We'll get to that part, Mr. Jordan. Okay.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
I just want to say the situation we're trying to address is what's been happening around the country. You didn't write it that way. As you know, a single federal judge gets cases brought to the judge. They waive the security and then issue a decision that applies nationwide to all immigrants who are in that situation.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
My amendment would strike an especially harsh provision in this bill that is rooted in cruelty, not policy. This simple, straightforward amendment would strike the work requirement provision in this big, bad, ugly bill that lowers the age of what we call a dependent child from 18 to 7. From 18 years old to 7 years old.
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Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed
So I'm abundantly clear, we're saying that eight, nine and 10 year olds are no longer considered dependent children. Where did this come from? Why is this necessary? Since when is a first grader not a dependent child? Preventing families with children as young as seven from losing food assistance. That is what we're debating here.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
Can we do a proof of life check on Andri just to see if he is alive?
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
Would you commit to just letting his mother know, as a mother to mother, if Andrew is alive? He was given an asylum appointment by the United States government. We gave him an appointment. We said, Andrew, come to the border at this time to claim asylum. He was taken to a foreign prison in El Salvador. His mother just wants to know if he is alive. Can we check and do a...
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
Madam Secretary? You have said that she caught in El Salvador is one of the tools in the toolbox that you have. You have said that and have been quoted as saying that. You and the president have the ability to check if Andrea is alive and if not being harmed. Would you commit at least into looking and asking El Salvador if he is alive?
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
And I think you know very well that you could ask that question. What you're choosing to do, Madam Secretary, is disregard this young man's life, this young man's family, who was given an appointment by the United States. I think it is shameful that you won't even request to see if this young man is alive. His family has no idea, has no access to lawyers.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
I would hope that we would have that humanity. The humanity to just check if this young man is okay. With that, I yield back. It's shameful.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
Now, Madam Secretary, you've heard this case today, but I have to speak about it one more time. I think it's really important. This is Andrew Romero. He had an appointment to come to this country to claim asylum. We gave him that appointment. The United States government gave him his asylum appointment. He comes for his appointment. He passes a credible fear interview.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
He's a gentle person as described by his family. He's openly gay. He was leaving his country for persecution of being gay. He did everything right, claimed asylum, that was legal. And then we sent him to a dangerous prison at the border with no due process. There are claims about his tattoos. He has his parents' names on his tattoos. and two crowns that relate to a festival back in his hometown.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
We are paying to lock this young gentleman up forever. What I would ask is the ambassador in El Salvador, we have asked for proof of life of Andri. He has had no access to lawyers or family since he has been taken over a month now. No one knows if he's even alive. His mother just wants to know if he is alive. So my ask to you, Madam Secretary, is the same that I asked the ambassador.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
We're an equal branch of government, and you start off with a blather, and yet we look at the empty seats here. Where's Elon Musk? I'm sure he's a genius and is a very credible person because of the wealth he's accumulated. But that does not put him above the law or the responsibility to come before this committee in this Congress.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
If he's so great, if these plans and all the fraud and abuse that he found are so eminent, why isn't he here explaining it? You know why. Because he's out to privatize Social Security. He's been on television the last couple of days talking exactly about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and what he intends to do. Privatize it. The American people, some of them may have been born at night.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
that there will be mass collateral damage to the absurdities of the policies that they are pursuing. And so I think about the average working family in my district that's struggling to be able to buy a new car because car prices are soaring through the roof, interest rates are still remarkably high, and what are they left with? They're left with the car infomercial
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
that the president of the United States conducted earlier today on the White House lawn. That is their policy prescription, right? Is to engage in these reckless economic policies, the tariffs and the rest, unnecessary trade wars, and then ultimately offer nothing of actual consequence to the American people who are really struggling.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
And from my perspective, that's the most confounding part of all. House Democrats are going to remain focused, you know, as Leader Jeffries often says, keeping the main thing the main thing, which is quality of life, cost of living, addressing core challenges that the American people face that Republicans refuse to address. And as I said, if anything, are exacerbating.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
had rogue kana on democratic congress member kana here's what he had to say the what gives me confidence is propaganda even if you have an information asymmetry doesn't work when the reality is terrible and what we're what what what biden had was in many cases a an economy that was recovering and we got hurt by propaganda now you actually have a terribly uh moving economy and people are
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
are hurting and there's no amount of things that sean hannity can say that's going to pay the bills there's no amount of things that a charlie kirk can say that's going to pay the bills and so you know you can't spin reality at a certain point and that's what uh republicans are waking up to
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
Publicans are really hoping, really, really hoping I don't bring up this last part. Guess what they tucked into this rule, hoping that nobody would notice. They did this after everyone went home. They slipped in a little clause letting them escape from ever having to debate or vote on Trump's tariffs. Isn't that clever?
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
Trump's trade war will result in one of the largest, if not the largest, tax increase on American families ever. And this rule gives him the ability to do it without a vote in Congress. I get it. They're already hiding from their voters, running away from their own town halls, slipping out the back doors because they're afraid of being held accountable by their own actions.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
But guess what, Mr. Speaker? People don't send us here to hide. They send us here to fight for them. And they send us here to vote. And Democrats are not going to be complicit in voting to screw over America's veterans. We're not going to be complicit in voting to screw over our senior citizens on Social Security. We're not going to be complicit in taking money away from first responders.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
And we're sure as hell not going to be silent when it comes to this administration's BS and their corruption. Because what we are going to do is we're going to show up in our communities. We're going to stand up for veterans. We're going to speak up for people on Medicaid and Social Security. And we're going to put up
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
one hell of a fight when it comes to middle class families who are counting on us to fight for them. I urge a no vote on the disgraceful rule, a no vote on the underlying legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Sitting here, under discussion. So did you know that this was under discussion? And why did you not include that as part of your opening remarks?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
No, excuse me. China increased their tariffs on the United States. Trump blinked. What's the blink, sir?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
How long is the pause? How many days? How many weeks?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the president of the United States about a global reordering of trade negotiations. Yes, I have. I've just been in a hearing with you. But yet he announced it on a tweet. WTF? Who's in charge?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
The United States has run trade deficits for 48 straight years, during which time the U.S. economy has grown by 255% in real terms. These decades of trade deficits have corresponded with increases in American wealth and household incomes that far exceed the progress in Canada, China, and the European Union.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Do you think that this growth in American wealth as a result associated with deficits is something that constitutes a national emergency?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
We seem to have done much better than in the Gilded Age, which the president prefers. I would just say that on the eve of his inauguration, the president promised to bring prices drastically down, and there's nothing that you've said in your answers or non-answers.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
me today that will give americans any assurance to believe anything other than that their prices will continue to soar and their savings will continue to shrink the president's lies continue to cause the american cost the american people dearly i yield back going back to democratic senator cortez mastro watch this be intellectually honest
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Mr. Trade Representative, are you aware that the tariffs have been paused? I am, yes. When were you made aware of that? Well, I understood the decision was made a few minutes ago.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Yes, that is April 14th, and you did it after. So I'm going to give you another F, two counts for transparency.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Madam Chair, on a point of order.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
That was your time. Your time is over. And now we're asking a week. The chair has discretion.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
As long as we have that understanding, that's fine.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
This interview over the weekend that he doesn't know if he would uphold, should uphold the Constitution in the situation with due process with undocumented immigrants. What's your reaction to what the president said this morning?
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Look, I think this is so misguided. The notion that because he won an election that he should be able to ignore the Constitution or violate our laws is preposterous. Every president wins an election. That does not mean that they get to just make up whatever laws they want and decide which ones they're going to comply with and which ones they aren't.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Donald Trump does not get to decide what the law is. The Supreme Court and the judiciary does, as well as immigration judges for deportation cases. And so the issue here is he wants to use the Alien Enemies Act in 1798 law from a completely different era that says only those who represent, who are essentially soldiers for a different country in wartime, can be removed from this country.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
But there hasn't been established in any way, shape or form that there's any war that Venezuela is waging on us. In fact, the intelligence community has determined that Venezuela is not directly supporting the Trendavra, the gang, the foreign terrorist organization that's been designated now. So there is no factual basis to think that the Alien Enemies Act should apply.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
And for Donald Trump to just say, oh, well, I won in my election, therefore I get to determine what the Alien Enemies Act says is preposterous. It runs totally counter to the very fundamental nature of our constitutional and democratic values.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
I now recognize Ms. McClain from Michigan. I now recognize Ms. McClain from Michigan. Madam Chair. but we stand with the LGBTQ plus community and you can gavel me to order.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Madam Chair, I had a point of order. Could we just have the timekeeper, you know, log the time between both the Democrats and Republicans and then we rebalance them so that we each have equal time? That's that's pretty basic.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Either we go by the rules or we're out of here.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
The document that you have up behind you is a misrepresentation of the actual post. It appears that you're trying to misrepresent a witness here who you use subpoena powers.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Stand with you with the LGBTQ plus community. We stand with you and you can raise your drums.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
So, of course, Republicans on the Government Efficiency Committee are holding an emergency hearing on semi-pro fencing. Not fences like the kind that goes around a building, but like the sport with the swords. And I've knocked on thousands of doors and talked to thousands of Republican, independent, and Democratic voters in my career.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
And not a single time has someone flung open their door and said, thank God you're here, Congressman. I want to ask you about transgender people fencing. It's just never happened. I've never even met a fencer before. I've just seen it on the parent trap. I'm sure it's a great sport, but what the hell are we doing here?
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Seriously, we're here because chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that if she picks on vulnerable people, like trans folks, she can avoid having a discussion about the allegations of insider trading against her.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
She thinks that she can distract from the fact that Trump and MAGA Republicans are raising your costs every single day, suppressing your wages every single day, stealing your taxpayer dollars every single day, and threatening your healthcare. That's the reason we're at this crazy hearing today.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Play this clip right here for transparency. Let's go. Did you recently change your social media profile from public to private?
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Okay, was that before or after you got wind that you might end up being here today?
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Also happened to be right after you found out that you might be here, correct?
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
The document that you have up behind you is a misrepresentation of the actual post. It appears that you're trying to misrepresent a witness here who you use subpoena powers.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
They also were supposed to have a markup as it relates to agriculture and SNAP benefits, cutting $220 billion from SNAP when people only get $6 a day to eat in SNAP benefits for those that do receive it. And the last time I checked, you probably can't get 12 eggs for that amount of money. And so instead of doing it, literally there was a leak in a story that came out where a staffer said,
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
No, we want to make sure we can flood the zone. So whenever we do this, we're going to make sure that these committees are going to be at the same time. Like the fact that you're hiding from your constituents, the fact that you literally just are like, let me just throw everything at you so that we can overwhelm you.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Instead of actually doing your job, I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say, you took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I survive. do not have healthcare, I'm gonna make sure you don't have a job.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
The fact that Democrats and my colleague Representative Pramila Jayapal feel the need to even introduce an amendment that says ICE cannot deport U.S. citizens is batshit crazy. This should not even be a discussion. It is not even a question. U.S. citizens cannot be deported by ICE. It's the law. It's the Constitution. I will be astounded if Republicans vote no on this. You're back.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Mr. Chairman, you know, it must be tough. to be an authoritarian. You promise everybody in the world to get elected. Prices will go down on day one. No more inflation. We're going to end Russia's war on Ukraine. The world's going to respect us.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And then you get in, and even though you inherit an economy from your predecessor that's described as the envy of the world by The Economist magazine, you crash everything. The economy today is shrinking. The stock market is sinking. Inflation is soaring. $7 trillion in American retirements and wealth has been destroyed.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
You've plunged us with your imbecilic tariffs into a trade war with the whole world, except, of course, for your bosom buddies in Russia. So now only 100 days in, with 100 unforced policy blunders, you're the most unpopular president at this point in your presidency in more than 80 years. Barack Obama stood at 69% in the polls. Ronald Reagan was at 73% in the polls. Truman was 87%.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And Franklin D. Roosevelt, 68%. But Donald Trump is at 39%. The lowest 100-day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda for 100 days. He controlled the House. He controlled the Senate. He's got everything going for him. And his numbers are in the gutter.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Right now, we're cutting jobs as it relates to the federal government. Right now, because of the failed policies around tariffs, we know that we are looking at losing plants. They said that that was going to bring plants. They just announced that we had two auto dealers that were going to shut down approximately 40,000 jobs.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
As they then go after NIH, we know that in the state of Alabama, the largest employer In the state of Alabama is the University of Alabama. They are looking at losing jobs because they won't have research dollars. The only thing that they are doing is hurting us. It is the reason if we don't talk about numbers and mandates, it is the reason that the only person in recent modern times to have jobs.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
The lowest approval ratings at their 100-day mark is the same person the first time they were in and now this time. It is time for us to get serious and talk about what will grow our economy, what will bring more money in, what will make sure that people can move up from working poor to middle class and maybe even reach this higher level of
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
that so many of y'all listen to, this upper echelon, this rich level, because that is what is supposed to set us apart in this country. We are supposed to live in a country where everyone has an opportunity to go from rags to literally riches. And so I am asking my colleagues to start looking out for the people that elected them.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
I think you're a little more than four years older than him.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And this is one way that we can do it by supporting this amendment of Ms. Lee. And with that, I will yield.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Well, I don't think he's competent, Will. I don't know what to tell you. Whether his cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th Amendment, you know, we don't know that right now. But I think what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy. He has undermining the fundamental rule of law and democracy.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
He is taking away benefits in order to cut taxes for the rich. I think even you, Will, would have to agree with me that this first hundred days is not at all what he promised the American people.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
This is what we want you to open your eyes to. If it can happen, as we've said time and time again, if it can happen to folks with green cards, it can happen to citizens. And in Oklahoma City, we see a perfect example of that. This is what we're talking about. It's not other people. It's us. It's our neighbors. It's our friends.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
It's people who just moved from Maryland to Oklahoma for a better life and have their house destroyed. And they can't get answers. If we watch the rest of the news clip there, they're asking ICE, who's responsible for this? And then they're sending them to another agency, and they're sending them to another agency, and nobody is accountable for what happened to them.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
This is what my colleagues are trying to fund with this bill. Armed federal agents breaking into homes, even of U.S. citizens, traumatizing them, taking their possessions. This is Trump's America. That's why we continue to talk about due process. It's not some pie in the sky idea. It's what literally holds our country together without due process, without the belief in the Constitution.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
We are not Americans. That's what gives us the ability to say we are an exceptional country in the world, that everyone who lives here gets due process. And we're going to keep saying this over and over and over again for everyone who lives here. What happened to that family?
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
So this amendment specifically deals with. issues around the consumer price index. So let's talk about the price of eggs, because for whatever reason, we've yet to have a hearing on the price of eggs when that was really the one big thing. And I remember the big guy that's in the White House saying that he was going to reduce the cost of eggs on day one.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
But what we see is that the national average price of eggs in March of 2025 was $6.23, a 6% increase from the previous month, a 60% increase in year to year, and USDA said egg prices could climb 41% this year. When we start to talk about things such as our energy, in March, natural gas prices increased 3.6%, and electricity prices increased 9%. Fuel and oil prices increased 0.8%.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Utility gas services increased 2.5%. The national average for a gallon of gas is currently $3.17, nowhere near the $1.98 that President Trump claimed last week. I just want to make sure we get the facts out there.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Mr. Chairman, the Republicans on this committee just voted no. on canceling Elon Musk contracts if he violates the law and stays past 130 days. The Republicans on this committee just voted no on Mr. Frost's amendment that would require the President of the United States to follow U.S. Supreme Court orders. At some point, We've got to have some shame on this committee.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
So my amendment, I would hope my Republican colleagues would vote for it, is that if a court or the federal government finds that Mr. Musk abused his power to enrich himself here over the last few months, then we would cancel his contract. If a court finds that the richest man on earth
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went in, used the federal books, scraped people's data, steered contracts to himself, then we should maybe stop sending him $8 million a day and save the American taxpayer $3 billion.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
That's the way that not just Democrats, but conservatives, progressives, independents, all across the country want to see us save some money by saying these corporate grifters that use the government to enrich themselves, they should get cut off. And look, there's a House Republican majority today, but there could be a Democratic majority tomorrow or at least in under two years.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And when we are sitting on this committee and if we get a chance to have the subpoena power and look into this and find out that Elon Musk has used his power to enrich himself, the consequences could actually be much greater than just having his contracts cut off.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
I don't understand how you'll be able to look yourself in the face knowing that you voted to allow our federal government to detain and deport United States citizens simply because you do not want to vote against something that Donald Trump may support. Do you have a thought of your own Do you have a belief of your own or is everything literally just whatever Donald Trump tells you it should be?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And tariffs, you know... Do you think the tariffs, the trade war that he's launched against so many countries around the world is a disaster?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
There's absolutely going to be provisions that eliminate bad tax policy and replacing it with better tax policy. We did that in 2017. We're going to do it throughout this process. But we're going to eliminate a lot of different loopholes. Will it expand the deficit? It will. The House budget version is much different than the Senate budget version.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And in fact, we are going to expand the growth in the economy. And that's the key. If you look at the revenues coming into our country right now under the current Trump tax cuts that are current policy, current law, GDP towards revenue is 17.2%. If you look at over the last 50 years, it has averaged 17%. We are going to maintain and grow that.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
So the three Republican witnesses come to a hearing on industrial policy and none of them mentioned the word tariff, not a single one. And yet all Donald Trump is doing is tariff policy when the three Republican witnesses are recommending a hundred different things other than tariff policy. Mr. Bishop, do you agree with Donald Trump's tariff policy?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
You're all saying you're not here as an economic experts and yet you're giving us all these recommendations for how we build an industrial base. Is it that you don't have any expertise that we should just pick up any random citizen or do you have, are you here as some economic expertise on industrial policy?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
The next presidency, because we believe in the plan of the presidents, and that is to strengthen our national security, strengthen our economy, and sometimes being a disruptor causes some short-term problems fallbacks, some short-term setbacks. But nevertheless, that is not an indicator of long-term prosperity. And we believe in the end, it's not about how you start, it's how you finish.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
But I don't understand how you don't have it. The president of the United States is saying the way to build manufacturing is to have these tariff policies. You're here to testify on manufacturing, how we're going to build it. You're telling me you don't have an opinion on whether the Trump tariff policy is successful or not?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
This is not a theoretical matter. He's implemented tariffs. I'm not even trying to trick you. I'm saying, do you agree with all his tariff policies or do you disagree with them? Or are you so afraid that you don't know what to say?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
But I also have to bring up something that one of my colleagues, Representative Khanna, had brought up. It has to do with the terrorist policy. And while advanced manufacturing create jobs, that number of jobs will pale in comparison to to the negative impact of Trump's tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on all consumers. They put the heaviest burden of that tax on middle and working class Americans.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
You're shaking your head. One of the witnesses is shaking his head no, but we just went through this and you all conceded that you know nothing about tariffs and have nothing to say about it.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
We heard just recently with Congressman Trahan's amendment that we don't need any of these amendments to take our word, that the word has been given that Medicaid is going to be protected, to trust us that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given to me that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court, and that wasn't true.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
As an American, the word was given that our, you know, our First Amendment rights protections would be in place for everyone, including green card holders and people who are lawfully here in this country. That didn't end up to be true.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And we think the market's coming back and the results in the end are gonna be very strong.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to Give Mr. Higgins the opportunity because I mentioned him earlier and he wasn't here. He tweeted yesterday that we should arrest 100 more judges. Arrogant elitist black robes have been raping our core principles for a decade. If the DOJ needs a list, I have it.
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I'm willing to yield to Mr. Higgins if he could tell us who those 100 judges are and why they should be arrested.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Yeah, we're here, Mr. Swalwell, too. address this amendment and this bill. We're not going to have a back and forth colloquy today. So I'm not going to allow that question. You have four minutes and 30 seconds.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
play this clip we're 100 days in to this administration and the president promised he would lower prices on day one donald trump is oh for a hundred he's oh for 100 prices are not going down they're going up The Trump tariff tax is raising prices on the four out of five items in every American's Walmart shopping cart. Your 401ks? They're 201ks. That's the Trump slump.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Americans were anxious about the economy when they voted last November. They wanted their costs to go down. They didn't want the chaos to go up. So what are we doing here? What are we doing here? What in this hearing achieves lowering costs for the American people? You know how far you have deviated from lowering the costs for American people? This is where you are. Today, you will make it easier
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
to deport more American citizen children with cancer. Think about that. Today's vote will make it easier for the president to deport more American children with cancer. That makes me sick. I have a seven-year-old, a six-year-old and a three-year-old. You don't have to be a parent to understand how cruel this is. That in the last two weeks, a four-year-old was separated from his father, a U.S.
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citizen, and deported with his mother while he was suffering stage four cancer and undergoing cancer treatment.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Donald Trump spent the last year and a half questioning the cognitive ability of President Joe Biden, notwithstanding many of the legislative accomplishments that Donald Trump could only wish he got over the finish line.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And so I think it's fair that a lot of Americans across the country that I run into are questioning whether Donald Trump is actually fit at this point to be able to carry out the duties of the United States of America in terms of being the president and the commander in chief.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Trump has created a government by and for the billionaires. And if anyone ever doubted that Trump and Musk and Bezos and the billionaires are all at one team, just look at what happened at Amazon today. Bezos immediately caved and walked back a plan to tell Americans how much Trump's tariffs are costing them.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Bezos, who spent $40 million on Melania Trump's documentary, wants big tax cuts and sweetheart deals much more than he wants to represent the American people. I mean, you saw what went down yesterday, right?
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
They want to take and cut Medicare, and as we know it, Medi-Cal here in California. They want to eliminate the Department of Education. They are trying, as we all know, through their Doge program, to destroy our federal agencies. And they are firing unconstitutionally tens of thousands of federal workers across this country, with no remorse, and with complete, pure cruelty.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
We have to stand up in this moment against that type of tyranny and those types of attacks.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
So what's next? How do we fix that? Fortunately, there's a young, talented group of people that are sprouting up across this country that are building now these new YouTube sites. Some of you might know Midas Touch, for example. Absolutely. That's right. New spaces like Midas Touch, like other sites on YouTube, are actually growing really quickly.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
I want you all to know that the reason why I'm able to honestly to get up in the morning and just like fight and feel like I can take this on and I can call Elon Musk out and I can take on Donald Trump and get all crazy with Marjorie Taylor Greene and push back. Listen, they've tried. Nancy Mace is trying to censor me. Donald Trump is trying to arrest me.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Elon Musk has promised he's going to primary in the next election. And what I say, like, if these are my enemies list, we're probably doing something. We're probably doing something right. We're probably doing something right.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
I'll tell you this. I swear. I swear on my mother and my family on this one thing. that I don't care, I will, you can arrest me, but I will never stop pushing back and fighting Elon Musk and Donald Trump until you throw me in Guantanamo Bay. I promise you that. I promise you that. Promise you that. I could care less. I could care less. And I think, that's okay, no, no.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Look, I think, I think if you are, if you are right now, in Congress, and you're not, this is the moment, if you are not in Congress and you're not willing to stand up and understand that our democracy and everything that we love about this country is actually in danger, then step away for someone that is willing to do that. Step away for someone that is willing to do that.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Things cannot stay the same. Maybe you've seen the recent rallies that AOC and Bernie have been hosting in other parts of the country. They are motivating young people. And you don't have to agree with every single thing that Bernie wants to do to recognize that what they're doing is they're doing something that I believe is the democratic message.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
We should be listening because people say, what's the message? The message is that right now it's all of us versus the billionaires who want to take more of our hard-earned money so they can give themselves larger tax cuts. People say, and I hear this from young people all the time, why is Elon Musk doing this to the government? Why are they trying to harm our public agencies?
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
So why is it that they are going after Medicare? Why is it that they're shutting down USAID? Why do they keep going and trying to actually shut down programs? The answer is simple. It's because they're shutting down these programs because they want to save resources, save money, and take all of that money and resource and redistribute that so they can then give themself
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
all their billionaire friends and the largest corporations in this country with massive tax cuts. They know and they've said that in order to pass their massive tax plan, they need to save three to four trillion dollars. They need to save three to four trillion dollars. Where are they gonna get that three to four trillion dollars? All of us. They are going, they are trying to rob
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
all of us and working people in this country so that then they can then take those resources and give themselves more and more and more. That's the fight right now that we are in this country.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
That's exactly right. Let me and let me add, which I think is important. We right now are not only having to stand up against a president that likens himself a king. But we're also having to stand up against Republicans in the House and the Senate who have decided to stand with billionaires instead of working people and working families in this country. They want to destroy Social Security.
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Fox News Crashes On Air as Trump Screws Them
I want to call for Senator Chris Van Hollen to meet with the family of Rachel Morin, the murdered woman in Maryland, the mother of five children. He has not met with her at all, but he's meeting with an MS-13 gang member down in El Salvador. I am calling for Senator Chris Van Hollen
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to meet with Rachel Morin's family and give them at least the same amount of time that he is giving to an MS-13 gang member.
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Fox News Crashes On Air as Trump Screws Them
Good for you, Jesse. That's probably a smart move for your mental health.
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Trump Gets News He Feared as Rallies Against Him Expand
And here's the thing, it doesn't matter if you're young, old, or Gen X, Gen Z, I don't give a shit. But I come, we're now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Fuck around. Fuck around. Fuck around. That's the energy we need. Thank you so much.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
The document that you have up behind you is a misrepresentation of the actual post. It appears that you're trying to misrepresent a witness here.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
Play this clip. Can you name a school where it has been confirmed that students are using litter boxes? Yes.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
Can you name a school where it has been confirmed that students are using litter boxes? This was at the top of your press release. This was mentioned when you introduced this bill, created quite a stir. So I'm asking, can you name a school where it's been confirmed that there are litter boxes being provided to students?
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
Your tweet about this bill was flagged by the app itself under their community notes. And their fact check said, sensationalist claims about furries literally behaving as animals and receiving accommodations such as litter boxes have been repeatedly debunked as hoaxes. Is that correct?
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
Okay. I find it concerning that these types of debunked conspiracy theories are being used by politicians at the highest levels of our government, including in this legislature, who know that they're incorrect. Are you aware that Governor Abbott said, quote, kids go to school dressed up as cats with litter boxes in their classrooms? Sure.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
Are you also aware that when the governor was asked by the Dallas Morning News to name a single school where this happened, he couldn't? And PolitiFact called this a pants-on-fire false claim started by online rumors?
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Do you think it's a good use of our time to write laws based on debunked internet conspiracy theories?
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
I want to ask you a few questions about the language of the bill. So Your bill provides includes language that prohibits students from engaging in certain types of, quote, non-human behavior, which is defined as including, quote, licking oneself or others, end quote. Is that correct?
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
Yeah. I am worried that there are developmentally normal behaviors, things that any child might do that could be punished under the language because it's so broad and unclear. So let's just use this example because there are actual monetary fines along with your bill. So this is not just a humorous thing. There are real consequences.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
If a student eats Cheetos and then licks the cheese dust off their fingers, would that be considered licking oneself?
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
But you're defining non-human behavior as licking oneself or others.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
So who decides whether the licking is non-human behavior? Is that the attorney general's job if your bill becomes law?
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
But all there needs to be is one complaint and the attorney general, the top cop in the second largest state in the union, is now tasked with investigating that behavior? I mean, I would just hope that the attorney general has better things to do than investigating licking. licking or that kind of behavior among kids.
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Obama Goes GLOVES OFF and goes after Trump at His Forum
I can't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's not, he's not, he's a, he's an Arab. He is not...
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
On the Doge proposal here, should Democrats be more involved in this? Are you disappointed that Mr. Musk and Ramaswamy didn't come to meet with you? Do you think that the opportunities here, that their political appetite is bigger than their parliamentary stomach when it comes to getting some of these things done?
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
But does it worry you about the idea that they're doing this just with these two guys who aren't part of the government, who don't have experience directly in understanding discretionary, non-discretionary spending, and therefore should Democrats be directly involved and say, look, we don't want waste, fraud, and abuse, but... Democrats will, of course, have to be directly involved to the extent that there is any legislative aspect of this, and we will, by necessity, be engaged because it's clear that...
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
Our investigation must continue, I believe, to let the American people know the truth, even if these pardons are taking place.
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
I agree, and I think it should be.
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
With the election behind us and considering it's now already the end of the year, how do you envision the future of Democratic Party?
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
Is this. Is infantile bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico really this House's top priority? I heard the gentle lady say it's going to solve all the problems, of course, if we name it the Gulf of America. Golly day, why didn't we think of that? The economy is shrinking for the first time since COVID-19. Costs are going up. I think Saturday Night Live just called me. They want me on.
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
Costs are going up. Small businesses are going under. American families are worried they won't be able to keep the lights on, keep food on the table, and keep the roof on their head. They're happy about course golf of America. That'll do it. Millions of Americans risk losing their health insurance if Republicans' Medicaid cuts go through. Yet Republicans think this juvenile legislation
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
is the best use of this House's time. This is the only thing we're doing today, folks. What a sick joke this is.
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
Solve problems, defend democracy. And yes, this bill has been called a joke more than once. In committee, I even offered an amendment to rename the entire planet Trump just to underscore the absurdity of their sycophantic bootlicking.
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
But now, after seeing this bill advance not only through committee, but all the way through to the House floor for a final vote, it's getting a little bit harder to laugh.
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
higher costs thanks to Donald Trump's reckless tariffs. And instead of pushing back the president and Congress asserting our constitutional authority as it relates to tariffs and trade in the best interest of the American people, no, Republicans have a different approach. Here's this gem from Trump. Representative Ana Paulina Luna of the great state of Florida.
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
She's got legislation to arrange for the carving of the figure of President Donald J. Trump on Mount Rushmore. Are we living in the times of King Nebuchadnezzar? What are we doing, folks? There are serious issues that the American people want us to confront.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
Yesterday, the Secretary testified, Secretary Noem testified. Quite honestly, I found her responses confusing and inadequate. In response to my question, asking her about whether or not this administration seeks to eliminate FEMA, this was her response.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
And I quote, President Trump has been very clear since the beginning that he believes that FEMA and its response in many, many circumstances has failed the American people and that FEMA as it exists today should be eliminated and empowering states to respond to disasters with federal government support. A clear answer. Does this administration seek to eliminate FEMA?
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
And do you support eliminating FEMA?
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
I'm not going to let you off that easy. Please proceed.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
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MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as Bill Blows Up on Live TV
Margaret, I got to tell you, it was like listening to 1984 or something, listening to the speaker. You know, anybody can look this up. The American people want basically three things out of their federal budget. Number one is
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MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as Bill Blows Up on Live TV
At this point in time when the wealthiest Americans are doing better than ever before, Americans want the wealthiest of Americans to pay more taxes and to give tax relief to the middle class and below. Number two, they want us to address the deficit. which is now spiraling out of control to the point where we got a downgrade in one of the U.S. credit ratings.
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MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as Bill Blows Up on Live TV
And third, they want a simpler tax code. This bill fails spectacularly on all three counts. They're cutting Medicaid and nutritional assistance food stamps to tens of millions of Americans in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. They're adding $3 trillion to the deficit with this bill. And lastly, they're gumming up the tax code with you don't have to pay taxes on tips.
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MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as Bill Blows Up on Live TV
Now, what about the folks who don't earn tips, you know, auto lending? I mean, again, on the three things that Americans care most about that they want the Congress to do, this bill fails spectacularly. Look, and that's going to show up in the polling pretty soon as Americans come to realize what it is that the House of Representatives just did.
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This Vulnerable GOP District Just Got Blown Wide Open (Mike Sacks Interview)
If he has found all of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we don't want that either. But what we're talking about is burning down the house instead of taking... I'm still talking, please. What we're talking about is burning down the house instead of taking out the garbage. There is waste in the federal government. All of us would like to see that go so that we can help the people.
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This Vulnerable GOP District Just Got Blown Wide Open (Mike Sacks Interview)
Mr. Lawler, can you please let me finish my... Can you let me finish my conversation? And I'm going to finish.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
There's 300 billion euros of frozen assets being held in Brussels right now that France and Germany and Belgium have all over.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Russian assets, that's right. If Congress signaled in a bipartisan fashion that, one, we want Ukraine to win this war, we believe Russia was the aggressor, not Ukraine, and two, that we support our European allies in giving security guarantees to Ukraine paid for with Russian assets, I think we could get to a resolution very quickly.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Congressional Republicans are not stepping up and just saying the very basic sentence of Ukraine is right, Russia is wrong. Let me ask you a question, Congressman Gonzalez.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Is it popular to cut health care for the 40 percent of kids in this country who rely on Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need tax cuts? Yeah, that's not going to be popular.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
That is what congressional Republicans are doing. Those is a misdirection tactic. The focus of effort is that they're going to take eight hundred and eighty billion dollars out of health care that seniors rely on for at home care that kids rely on for primary care. And they're going to use it to give the one percent massive tax cuts.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
As well, we were doing a town hall in the biggest city in my district. Democrats still do town halls. And this city voted for Donald Trump in 2024, first time in 100 years. The most resonant theme of the day that I heard from these Americans was how livid they are about the way that President Trump behaved in the Oval Office with Vladimir Zelensky.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Zelensky flew to Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin. And the propaganda that they heard from the commander-in-chief made Americans feel less safe and made them feel ashamed. This is an opportunity for congressional Republicans to distance themselves from this abomination and to demonstrate that Americans are going to stand for freedom and democracy.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Because with all due respect, people do win wars. The United States won World War II. It made this world safe for freedom and democracy. We are now making it less safe for freedom and democracy by giving Russia all the cards that Donald Trump claims they have.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Public opinion matters. And the public did not give Trump a mandate to dismantle the whole chunks of the federal government. Gave him a mandate to kick the tires, check the dipstick and make sure that things are running well and efficiently. In that part, he has a mandate. But what Elon Musk is doing is way beyond any mandate that Trump could possibly realistically claim.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
And we're going to fight that.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
There's a difference between cutting waste, fraud and abuse and dismantling whole agencies. No one gave Trump. No one gave Elon Musk that authority. It is unconstitutional. It's unlawful. It is a violation of Article one. And we're going to fight it.
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Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts
Very shameful display for all that to happen in the Oval Office, in front of the world and all of our allies who we need to stop Russia. And I think what honestly is most disgraceful is that throughout that conversation, that the president could not be clear. that Putin is a danger to Europe, to Ukraine, and to the United States.
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Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts
Putin is an authoritarian dictator, and we need to call it like it is, and to embarrass Zelensky, who is taking Putin on right now, to belittle him, an ally, and our efforts in Ukraine.
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
And the chairman gave the witness that option then the only folks that are afraid to hear from the witness with the American people watching are my friends on the other side of the aisle. I don't know if there's a proper motion, Mr. Chairman, but I'll make a motion. Let's vote. Let's take a vote. Who wants to hear from Hunter right now today? Anyone? Come on. Who wants to hear from Hunter? No one.
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
So I'm a visual learner. And the visual is clear. Nobody over there wants to hear from the witness. Oh, there's one. Thank you.
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
I'm not there yet, but I will eventually. So there's no one, other than one or two, that want to hear from the witness. So the majority of my colleagues over there, including the chairman, don't want to hear from the witness with the American people watching. So, Mr. Chairman... I just want to hear from you.
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
Will you acknowledge that you invited the witness on television to choose whether he could come to a public hearing, and do you stand by your words, or do you renege that invitation to the witness?
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
Mr. Chairman, I don't want to play the video, but that is not what you said on television multiple times. We have the quotes. We can put them up. You said the witness can choose between a deposition or...
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
No, Mr. Chairman, you make the rules. And the rule you made is that he can choose. The rule is- Those were your words, reclaiming my time.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/16/25
Madam Secretary, I want you to have credibility, and I want you to be taken seriously. Is this doctored or is it not doctored?
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/16/25
Is it doctored or not doctored? Madam Secretary, I have a 7-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 3-year-old. I have a bullshit detector. I'm just asking you, is this doctored or not doctored?
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Okay, can you show the photo? Walk with the photo down there. No, that one. Please take a look at this photo. It was tweeted by the president on April 21. It's been hanging out there for about a month.
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The time is now to fix how Washington works. To that end, I was proud to vote recently for the House Budget Resolution, which provides the framework. And you wonder why folks don't want to do these town halls. That framework provides for Congress to secure the border. Are you afraid of Trump?
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No, no, no. Answer the questions I ask, please. I only have five minutes. Who pays tariffs? Sorry? Who pays tariffs? Mr. Secretary, please. Excuse me. The question is very simply, who pays tariffs, Mr. Chairman? I'd like him to answer that question. He wants to answer other questions.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/9/25
Reclaiming my time. People pay tariffs, right? I'm reclaiming my time, Mr. Secretary. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Secretary. Reclaiming my time. You clearly aren't going to answer. I'm not going to waste my time having you go, uh, uh, uh, uh. Mr. Secretary.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/9/25
And your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law?
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/9/25
Well, we also need a full budget request, not a single paragraph full of wild talking points that we saw with the skinny budget proposal. We're now having a budget hearing without a budget request. So, Director Patel, where is the FY2026 budget request for the FBI?
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Have you reviewed it? Have you approved it?
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Well, how do we as Congress do our budget and our work without that request and without the spend plan?
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/9/25
That is insufficient and deeply disturbing. No response?
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
this is democratic congressman mcgovern speaking from the floor of the house of representatives how people voted for lower egg prices not for a middle east mar-a-lago here let's play this clip i mean my republican friends like to talk about america first again i i look at the front page of the new york times today trump proposing takeover of gaza as u.s territory
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
I got to tell you, people voted for lower egg prices, you know, not for a Middle East Mar-a-Lago. You know, people did not vote to send their sons and daughters into the tunnels of Gaza so that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump can build Trump Tower Gaza. That's not what they voted for. I mean, people want to talk about issues.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
They want us to deal with issues that are going to impact their everyday life, lower the cost of living. And in the first weeks, we have seen nothing, nothing from this president or the Republican majority here to deal with that.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
And look, you know, the agenda we're talking about, I mean, I'm looking at the New York Times here. Trump proposing takeover of Gaza as U.S. territory. I mean, do your constituents want to have their sons or daughters sent to Gaza to be in the middle of that violence? This is the guy who also now wants to invade Greenland. He wants to take over Panama. He wants to annex Canada.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
He wants to now occupy Gaza. I mean, we have 42 million people in this country who are hungry. Whatever happened to America First? Whatever happened to helping people in this country? Whatever happened to lowering prices? And instead we get this. This is like a warmonger here. I mean, come on.