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Chapter 1: What challenges are Republican leaders facing on TV shows?
Republicans making complete fools of themselves on the weekend shows like MAGA Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma, who was asked on Meet the Press by Kristen Welker. So tell the people in Oklahoma what your message is when they keep losing their jobs because Donald Trump is laying them off. He's taking away their Medicaid. What do you say to them, Mullen?
Here's what MAGA Republican Mark Wayne Mullen says. Play this clip.
Talk to the people in Oklahoma who've lost their jobs, who say they are hurting. They don't know how they're going to pay their mortgage. They don't know how they're going to make ends meet. Talk to those people. What's your message to them? They say enough of these cuts.
Well, I would tell you that the majority of the American people want to make sure that their taxpayers are being used correctly. I don't want anybody to lose their job. That's the last thing we want. But at the same time, any time you're trying to secure this country, which a national security risk we have right now is our national debt, we have to make changes and we have to make it quickly.
Unfortunately, when we have bureaucrats and politicians that have wastefully spent money The American taxpayer dollars, and we don't have to look any further than USAID to see the wasteful billions of dollars that were spent. Cuts had to take place, and every business owner understands this. Every business owner understands that you have to get your house in order before you can advance.
That's exactly what Doge is doing. Think about this. Every successful business owner.
Yes. So as this commentator says, he basically told them good night and good luck. Go F yourselves. I'm just going to do what Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell me to do. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan says the following on firing federal workers. Play this clip.
I grabbed this headline, national parks in chaos after the Washington Post story. Here's the first paragraph, California National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff. Next sentence, he was fired, he was the sole employee with keys and institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms. Now, if that is, I mean, that's the best you can do.
The real question is, how do visitors get locked in restrooms? I mean, this is how ridiculous some of this thing is. So maybe there have been some mistakes made, but I think the intensity and the focus on getting rid of the wasteful spending, the one guy who can unlock people who somehow get locked in a restroom at a national park, this is ridiculous.
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Chapter 2: How are job losses and policy changes affecting Americans?
Here, play the clip. Private sector will not be crowded out anymore. All the jobs created by the Biden, not all, but the 70, 80, 5% of the jobs created by the Biden administration were government jobs, government adjacent. They crowded out the private sector. The government interest rates spiked.
I would just point out, interest rates are down five weeks in a row on the tenure since President Trump took office. And mortgage rates are down. We're going to get that down. I was sitting next to, I noticed you're going to have Governor Youngkin later. I was sitting next to him on Friday. And I said, Governor, how do you feel about these layoffs? in Northern Virginia.
And he said, Scott, I think there's, I think he told me there's something like 350,000 private sector job openings in Virginia. State of Virginia has a portal. So there are plenty of private sector jobs and those are good paying. And we're going to reprivatize this economy like President Trump promised.
I think you would appreciate that impression of Besson. I mean, the most arrogant guy who's like, oh, I mean, this guy's worth like nearly a billion dollars and he's there.
We're just trying to reprivatize it.
That's why we're doing all this. It's like ridiculous stuff. Here is Mike Lawler, who tries to pretend that he's a moderate. But let's just say what he is. He's really a MAGA basically, and he's from New York. He ain't moderate at all. Mike Lawler here, soft pedals doge, claiming that what Musk is doing is actually not firing people. This is actually a comprehensive forensic audit.
That's what's going on. Here, play this clip. All right, let me show you some Democrats right here. Democratic Senator Von Hollen, let's play it.
Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency at the direction of President Trump is to find efficiencies and savings and make sure that our federal workforce is doing their jobs and doing it effectively. We have many, many, many people who do a phenomenal job on behalf of the American people.
But I think, ultimately, in any government, when a new administration comes in, whether it's a state government, whether it's a local government, and I've served at every level of government, you know, a new administration is always going to do a review and try to find efficiencies across the board. When you're staring down $36 trillion in debt and counting,
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