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Chapter 1: What is the current status of MAGA Mike Johnson and Trump's bill?
The cracks are showing, MAGA Mike. Can you handle the pressure? It looks like Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill is turning into a big, awful disaster, and you're the one holding the bag as this is all blowing up.
And some of the MAGA Republican senators are saying under no circumstance are they going to agree to this awful, awful bill that increases the deficit by trillions of dollars and guts Medicaid. So here MAGA Mike Johnson held a press conference earlier in the day. And he was asked a lot of questions, by the way, including Donald Trump accepting bribes from Qatar.
You can see MAGA Mike's stress as he goes, I've been a little busy dealing with reconciliation. So I don't know. What are we talking about here with this with this Qatar jet? What are we talking about here? Play this clip.
If the president were to accept an airplane from the Qatari government, should Congress have approval over that kind of thing?
Look, I've been a little busy on reconciliations. I'm not following all the twists and turns of the Qatar jet. I've certainly heard about it. My understanding is it's not a personal gift to the president. It's a gift to the United States and other nations give us gifts all the time. But I'm going to leave it to the administration. They know much more about the details of that.
OK, I'm just it's not my lane. Yes, sir.
Although MAGA Mike did seem to express some sympathy for members of Congress who engage in insider stock trading. Let's play this clip.
Well, look, the salary of Congress has been frozen since 2009. When you adjust for inflation, a member of Congress today is making 31 percent less than they made in that year. It goes down every year. And over time, if you stay on this trajectory, you're going to have less qualified people who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to run for Congress.
I mean, it's just people just make a reasonable decision as a family. on whether or not they can come and move to Washington, have a residence here, residence at home, and do all the things that are required. So the counterargument is, and I have some sympathy, look, at least let them engage in some stock trading so that they can continue to take care of their family.
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Chapter 2: How is MAGA Mike Johnson responding to questions about Trump's Qatar jet and insider trading?
a $30,000 number with a $400,000 income cap. That's unacceptable. And we said no very clearly. And so we're going through the process of finally negotiating with leadership to come to, hopefully, an agreement. But I look at it very simply. A district like mine, just north of New York City, three of the four counties that I represent are in the top 16 highest property tax counties in America.
And so having an income cap of 400,000 would devastate so many families across my district, and I'm just not going to accept it. And so, you know, we will negotiate and hopefully come to an agreement. But the fact is that as this stands, as currently written, I'm a no.
You're a no.
Here's some additional opposition from MAGA Republican senators. Manu Raju was able to interview MAGA Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and others. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
I don't think people who voted for President Trump thought that we would continue spending at President Biden's level.
I don't see any way I can support more tax cuts and more deficit spending. We should not be increasing deficit. I do fear that all the really large ticket items reducing spending have sort of been excluded.
So I have a feeling it's going to be wimpy on the spending cuts and it's going to be maybe a little wimpy on the taxes too.
should also be noted that I think Democrats have been doing some great cross-exams during these congressional hearings. For example, you had Democratic Congressmember Tom Suozzi expose that in cross-exam of one of the individuals who has to rate this tax bill, that actually all of Donald Trump's promises on the campaign trail about no tax on this and no tax was false, play this clip.
Okay, on tips. The president has said, your tips will be 100% yours. 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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