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Why are Republican Senators scared to vote against Trump?
The Senate just confirmed Kash Patel. It's a total nightmare. And there is bombshell reporting coming out from Vanity Fair, Gabriel Sherman, that Republican senators are, quote, scared shitless to vote against Trump. So let's talk about what's going on at the Senate with somebody who works in the Senate. Let's welcome to IHIP News, Senator Rosen. Senator Rosen.
Thank you for having me. Let me tell you. Well, I love the name of your podcast. I've had enough. Frankly, my daughter would say I always start that with it's enough. I've had it. So there you go. And that's how we feel around here, because to your point, the Republicans are scared. When will they grow is fine. When will they stand up for democracy? When will they protect the American public?
We're fighting to protect real people. They're fighting to protect well themselves and the billionaires.
Okay, I am kind of terrified when I start thinking about Elon Musk, the lack of transparency, it appears. by all of my observations, that he's the boss of the President of the United States, the Oval Office escapade, the joint interview with Sean Hannity. And you may remember when your former colleague, Vice President Kamala Harris, did an interview with Governor Walz.
Fox News had a stage five meltdown about the two of them doing it together and what poor leadership it was. And here we have Musk who has outwardly said he wants to dismantle democracy. We all know that's Vladimir Putin's number one objective is to dismantle democracy.
So I've made a list, a little list of some coworkers of yours that I think you and some other ball-busting senators need to, I don't know what you do to get them to come on board. Okay, Senator Tillis, Murkowski, Collins, Wicker, and I was going to say McConnell, but he just voted for Kash Patel. But what can we do to get some transparency about Elon Musk dismantling the federal government?
You know, I can just tell you that my colleagues, they need to grow a spine behind the scenes. They say one thing and then you're right. They're scared to damn death about what's going to happen to them. So they're protecting themselves and they're protecting Trump and his billionaire buddies. And so we think about Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, him and his teeny bopper tech bros.
They're up in everybody's business. What the hell are they doing at Social Security getting access to everyone's Social Security number? What the hell are they doing in the tax department, Treasury Bureau, getting everyone's tax returns? What are they doing in our VA where they have slashed thousands of jobs, doctors, nurses, those counselors who answer the veteran suicide hotline?
How is this helping anyone? They're up in Medicare, Medicaid. They're saying they're going to come after your Social Security, come after your Medicaid. I've had people calling my office. What's going to happen to my $35 insulin? Am I going to get my veterans benefits? Elon Musk, they fired all the watchdogs. He's in everybody's business.
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