The MeidasTouch Podcast
Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
Sat, 15 Mar 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s erratic behavior destroying America and Meiselas speaks with Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman about what he’s doing to fight back. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What recent economic data highlights concerns about inflation and unemployment?
The end of last week, the University of Michigan reported the kind of worst data it had on inflation expectations since 1993. In addition, consumer sentiments, the worst since 2022. The big news from this data was not inflation expectations by itself, but also if you look at what people are saying about the jobs market, the expected change in unemployment is the worst.
Since the 2008 recession, Donald Trump had his surrogates on at the end of last week. The first clip I'm going to show you, though, is from Howard Lutnick, Trump's Commerce Secretary. And here's what he has to say about the Federal Reserve's prediction of a 2.4% contraction. Let's play that one first, then.
We've seen worries about growth. I know you said you're not expecting a recession, but investors are on edge over the possibility of a recession this year after the Atlanta Federal Reserve said that it's predicting a 2.4 percent contraction in the first quarter. And of course, President Trump would not.
Wait, wait, wait. Say that again. A what?
The Atlanta Federal Reserve.
Contraction. Correct. Correct. First quarter. Right here. Right here. Right now. Right here. Right now. That is ridiculous.
Right here. Right now. I have Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman. What are you what are you what's your reaction to that? What are you hearing from your constituents, Congressman?
Oh, look, everybody's very scared. Not only is everybody scared, the uncertainty, the haphazard way, the whiplash creates a tremendous fear. And so even if the economy itself is actually better than one fears, the uncertainty drives companies to be conservative and either certainly not hire, maybe freeze, spend less money.
And so what this whiplash with the tariffs has done is it's not only clearly driven up prices and is going to drive up prices, But it has spooked the American economy because there's no clear strategy here. It is purely Donald Trump's whims and latest gut feeling. And a lot of times just his tough guy routine where he needs to win the battle of wills. And so I think it's got everyone very scared.
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Chapter 2: How did Howard Lutnick respond to economic predictions?
for cause and for performance, which also had implications also depending on what state they are and their unemployment, their ability to be rehired if they're fired for cause. And a federal judge in California Northern District, Judge Alsup, I used to appear in front of when I was practicing back in the day, he looked at these, no nonsense judge,
This federal judge, like you were a federal prosecutor. I mean, Trump's sending these DOJ people who don't have the facts, don't know who runs the agencies, who are staring at these judges. And these judges are like, well, who runs that? Who's doing that? And these DOJ lawyers for Trump are like, we're understaffed. We don't know. And these judges are issuing scathing rulings.
So the federal judge is like, you know what? rehire them all in various departments, bring them back. And I may have them all be rehired, but I'm going to focus on certain departments now. So today, on Friday rather, the Trump administration, they're out there whining. They're whining. Let me show you. They're going, it's unconstitutional. It's unfair. Here, play this clip.
Judge has ruled that tens of thousands of fired federal workers must be reinstated immediately. Okay, Karen, how are you going to fight that?
Well, let's talk about the absurdity of this, Stu. You have a single lower district court judge who ruled that all of these individuals need to be rehired, just usurping the executive authority of President Trump to fire federal workers. This cannot be allowed to happen. This ruling was unconstitutional. The White House and the Trump administration are prepared to fight back.
What's your response to that?
My response is she would benefit from going to law school before she starts spouting off about what's unconstitutional or not. She might also want to look down in the Fifth Circuit for how many nationwide injunctions a district court judge down in Texas has issued in favor of Republicans. But the bottom line is they don't have any good arguments other than Donald Trump is king.
And we know Donald Trump is not king. That's not how this country works. The courts are analyzing what the rationale is for these arguments. you know, complete cuts, just slashing without any real individualized attention or focus. And they're doing it in violation of the employee's rights. As you point out, the disdain and and
the demeaning way that they speak about federal government employees who, by the way, I mean, I was one for 10 years as a prosecutor, but so many of the others that I have come across are real American patriots. I mean, these are people who are sacrificing, making a lot more money in the private sector to anonymously serve the United States government. And they are experts in many, many respects.
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