Senator Chris Van Hollen
Appearances
Morning Wire
Congestion Toll Controversy & Diddy’s Charge Petition | Afternoon Update | 2.19.25
The Trump administration will have to cut federal funding to Maine schools in order to motivate the Democrat majority in the legislature and the unelected bureaucrats pushing this agenda to change the policy currently allowing boys to compete in girls' sports in Maine. This session, Republican legislators have submitted several bills to protect girls' sports in Maine.
Morning Wire
Congestion Toll Controversy & Diddy’s Charge Petition | Afternoon Update | 2.19.25
I invite every legislator to join me in standing up for fairness in girls' sports by passing these bills.
Morning Wire
Congestion Toll Controversy & Diddy’s Charge Petition | Afternoon Update | 2.19.25
This has everything to do to taking over the reins of government, to serve the already powerful, and to slash public services that help every American to make more room for tax cuts for Elon Musk. That is what this corrupt bargain is all about.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
Elon Musk spent over $280 million to elect Donald Trump. And Donald Trump is now allowing him to rampage through federal agencies. We need to end this illegal power grab and we are going to do it now. We are not going back. Are we going to let Elon Musk take control of the government? Hell no. Are we going to allow this illegal operation to continue?
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
It's great to be with you, Rachel.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
Yes. Look, I think we have to fight these illegal actions being taken by the Trump administration and by Elon Musk at every juncture. So that means fighting them in the courts. And we've seen judges issue temporary restraining orders. It means fighting them in the Congress with everything we have. We can't be business as usual. And it means mobilizing public opinion around the country. Look,
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
The thing that Trump-Musk team would like to see more than anything is for people to be cynical and just sit back while this illegal takeover of the government happens. We have good immune systems in our democracy, and so seeing the public rise up is really important. And the message, Rachel,
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
has to be not only that this is an illegal takeover by Musk and the most corrupt bargain in American history, but really a great betrayal of Donald Trump, of the people who voted for him, because he said he was going to focus on bringing down prices. Prices are going up.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
Instead, he is hollowing out the federal government and cutting services in order to pay for what will be a big tax break for wealthy Americans. So it's very important that we reach out to people across the country and help everyone see that betrayal that's going on.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
I think there's several things going on. I mean, I definitely think that they want to attack the organs of government and those important services to the American people because they don't like government.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
I do think they want to create the impression, Rachel, that they're making these huge, quote, efficiency gains and they're going to save all this money and therefore they're going to pay for their tax cuts. The great lie is, as you say, this has nothing to do with government efficiency, right? If you wanted to make the government more efficient, you wouldn't start by firing
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
all the inspector generals whose job it is to look out for waste, fraud and abuse. Doing that actually clears the way for the kind of corruption that Elon Musk would like to bring to the government. I think what they're trying to do is get the federal government to serve the already powerful and the already wealthy like Elon Musk.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
That's why they want to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that goes after scam artists and fraudsters and returns billions of dollars to American consumers who got cheated. They want to privatize the National Weather Service at NOAA. They want to sell it off to the highest bidder.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
They want to collect all this very sensitive personal information, social security numbers, bank accounts. So I agree that a lot of what they're doing is to destroy government, but also to so weaken it that it can then serve their purposes. And I think they want to create the impression that in the process they're saving money to pay for their tax cuts. All of it is a big lie.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
Thank you.