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Chapter 1: Why are jobless claims in America spiking?
Earlier this morning, we got some troubling news that jobless claims in America are spiking worse than expected. There were an estimated 242,000 jobless claims that were filed last week. This exceeded the expectations above most economists. And We're hearing now from Democratic voters, Republican voters, independent voters, people who aren't even all that political, just how pissed they are.
Chapter 2: How are former Trump supporters reacting to current events?
And we're learning about a lot of stories from people who were former Trump supporters as well, who are regretting their votes. We're seeing in ruby red districts as well, these red state voters showing up and saying, this is not what I voted for. You promised this, you promised that. None of the promises are happening anymore. And in fact, prices are surging. I mean, you've got posts like this.
The Let's Go Brandon store has its, they lost their lease. You have people posting on the various right-wing subreddits and social media chats saying that they're losing their jobs right now. A lot of people on Trump's social media platform responding to that bizarre post that he made about Trump, Gaza. And they were like, what the hell are you even doing?
And I think people are realizing that this tax cut is a scam that's just going to be helping the billionaires and screwing over working people. Well, all of that's happening. You've got like Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that these federal jobs that are being cut are not even real jobs and the people who are losing their jobs deserve it. Here, let's play this clip.
You can protest all you want outside of departments of this government. You can protest all you want. But the American people disagree with you. You're protecting the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. By the way, they're consuming taxpayer dollars.
Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will.
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Chapter 3: What is Congressman Suhas Subramanyam's perspective on federal job cuts?
Wow, let's bring in Democratic Congress member Suhas Subramaniam. Congress member, first off, welcome to the Midas Touch Network, your first time appearing. You are a Congress member from Virginia's 10th. What do you make of that? I know your district is being impacted by these cuts.
Yeah, you know, she said a couple interesting things. She also said that Congress couldn't cut Medicaid, but that's exactly what they're trying to do right now. But, you know, I represent a lot of federal workers and contractors And those are real jobs. They're real people with real families. So certainly the government does actually employ a lot of people that many of them are veterans.
But second, you know, aside from just that, I mean, you know, think of someone who's an employee at the IRS. They actually generate revenue for the government. They can make sure that taxes are collected to make sure waste, fraud and abuse is found and removed. And so a lot of the federal civil service actually saves taxpayers money in the long run. That's why a lot of these programs exist.
They were authorized by Congress to do just that. So, you know, what she said is not true. It doesn't make any sense. And, but, you know, we shouldn't be surprised, right? What we shouldn't be surprised about is a good thing, which is what you were saying before. I think now even Republicans are starting to understand that Trump's agenda was really just about helping the most vulnerable
the richest billionaires and richest corporations at the expense of kids who want to be fed and people who just want basic care on programs like Medicaid.
You know, I'm hearing that Republican leadership all the way up to MAGA Mike Johnson and Trump are telling the members of Congress, the Republicans, to stop doing their town halls because it was so humiliating what happened.
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Chapter 4: How are Republicans responding to town hall protests?
Then MAGA Mike Johnson went on CNN about a night ago, and he was saying, you know, all of those people that you're seeing in these ruby red districts, he's like, they're not real people. This is all fake. Don't believe your eyes. Let me just show you a bit of what he said, then get your reaction to that. Let's play it.
Just asking, because as you know, your home state of Louisiana, about 80 percent of the Medicaid spending there is covered by the federal government. We've seen it in a lot of red states, of course, across the United States. It's not just a blue state issue.
As you have seen through this and we've seen the blowback that some Republicans in your caucus are getting when they go back home to their districts, worried about these cuts or worried about what Doge is doing. Do you have concerns that that's anything that Democrats will be able to use to run against those Republicans?
No, I don't. Because the videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places. These are Democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats.
You can't argue they were all paid protesters, though, Mr. Speaker.
Many of them were.
A Republican acknowledged they were his constituents.
One Republican acknowledged they were his constituents. That's fantastic.
What's your response to that? We had one town hall in my district that we had room for about 150 people in the room. 500 people came and people left. Yeah, but a lot of people actually just stayed in the lobby of the building just to hear what we were saying and then came and talked to me afterwards. We have one tonight where we decided to increase the capacity of the room to 650, got a new venue.
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