Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR

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Speaker 5 The bill is passed without objection. The motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.

Speaker 5 Pursuant to clause 8.

Speaker 6 So that's the moment the MAGA Republican members of Congress were cheering that they passed their CR, their continuing resolution. That reminds me of something.

Speaker 6 Where have I seen clapping like that before?

Speaker 6 Where people look terrified by clapping at the same time? Oh, yeah, I think I've seen that before. It looks like that's what these MAGA Republicans have become these days.

Speaker 6 It looks a little bit Kim Jong-un-ish. And I guess there's a reason why Donald Trump looks up to Kim Jong-un.

Speaker 6 And when you look at this continuing resolution, there are about 22 different instances at least, although I want to see if there may be even more than that, in this bill where the funding for certain programs is set at zero dollars.

Speaker 6 And if you look at the types of things that are being cut, go back to that last graphic as well there, Salty.

Speaker 6 I mean, you're looking at things like EPA, healthcare, education, things that are going to also harm red state.

Speaker 6 So these MAGA Republicans are quite literally cheering on the fact that they're harming their own constituents.

Speaker 6 By the way, these are the same MAGA Republican Congress members who, for years have now been saying, we will never pass a continuing resolution again. The days of CRs are over.

Speaker 6 And if there is a CR, it's going to be clean CRs. This was none of that.
But then they tried to spin it, I think, in kind of of pyongyang fashion.

Speaker 6 This is MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer just saying how great things are. Play this clip.

Speaker 8 Last week, we celebrated President Trump's countless victories for the American people during his joint address to Congress.

Speaker 8 This week, Congress must pass a continuing resolution so the American people can continue to enjoy win after win after win.

Speaker 8 This is the way forward.

Speaker 8 But unfortunately, Democrats in Congress would rather throw temper tantrums fueled by their hatred for President Trump than keep the government open and working for all Americans.

Speaker 6 Last time I checked, y'all are the ones who control the House and the Senate and the executive branch. And y'all are the ones who are throwing the temper tantrums.

Speaker 6 This is MAGA Republican Congressmember Steve Scalise. Just take a look at this.

Speaker 11 Last week, All Americans who watched the State of the Union saw a very triumphant President Trump who's returned to the White House with even more energy, more vigor, and more focus to work for the American people than ever before, laying out in just six short weeks how much he's already done to fulfill the promises.

Speaker 6 What was Donald Trump doing today while the markets were crashing? Oh, yeah, he was out there with Elon Musk.

Speaker 6 selling Teslas and doing product placement while their propaganda network as well as Sean Hannany talking about buying Teslas.

Speaker 6 It must be nice, all these rich people buying Teslas all over the place and helping out their billionaire friends.

Speaker 7 Let's bring in

Speaker 6 Democratic Congressmember Joe Nagoos. Congressmember, you sit on the Rules Committee.
You're on the subcommittee of budget and legislation. So you know this CR.

Speaker 6 What are they cheering for right there?

Speaker 7 Can you put this into context?

Speaker 12 It's a great question. Good to be with you, Ben.
And thanks for having me on.

Speaker 12 Look, first and foremost, I got to react to the clips that you just showed because it is the height of absurdity absurdity for some of those Republican members.

Speaker 12 Literally, as the stock market is crashing, 401ks are vanishing for countless Americans across the country. Prices are going up across the board.

Speaker 12 And yet you have these Republican members, sycophants, praising the administration. that is pursuing the reckless policies causing the harm that their constituents are experiencing.
It is nonsensical.

Speaker 12 And of course, as you mentioned,

Speaker 12 the logical extension of this was today's vote on the CR, which they apparently were very proud of.

Speaker 12 This is a bill that would cut funding for core programs that countless Americans rely upon, nutrition assistance, health care benefits, veterans benefits under the PACT Act for the next fiscal year, all on the chopping block under this partisan Republican spending bill that they pushed through the House earlier today.

Speaker 12 There is nothing to applaud about. But, you know, again, past his prologue, it's clear that this is the course that they will maintain.

Speaker 12 And the fact that, as you said, you can see the sort of corruption on full display over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today, it just is astounding, I think, to the average American who's struggling right now to make ends meet and to see a Republican majority in Washington, in the House, in the Senate, and in the White House that clearly cares nothing about ultimately improving their quality of life.

Speaker 12 It's shameful.

Speaker 6 You know, I watch you on the rules committee, and it's an interesting committee because the members of Congress who are putting forward the legislation appear kind of as witnesses.

Speaker 6 So you're actually kind of examining or questioning your Republican colleagues.

Speaker 6 I want to talk about that because, I mean, I'm sure you speak to these people, not in that setting where they know that like our people at the Midas Touch Network are clipping all that stuff and getting it all up.

Speaker 6 Like after they're done with that theater, well, you're like, do they, do they admit kind of privately that like they know that this is big trouble?

Speaker 6 Or are they fully pyongyang, North Korea, clap clap mode that this is, this is their shtick, this is their jam?

Speaker 12 I mean, look, and this isn't, it's an, it's instructive in terms of where we are as a country.

Speaker 12 I think in the past, you know, I have a member or two that would approach me afterwards that understood that we had caught them, you know, in a bit of a trap, if you will, rhetorical trap, right?

Speaker 12 They sort of exposing the hypocrisy of their views in front of the rules committee, but would understand that perhaps that might be something that they need to modulate in the future.

Speaker 12 These days, that's not the case. Generally speaking, as I said,

Speaker 12 most of the Republican caucus now are sycophants for President Trump. There is nothing that he cannot do in their eyes, nothing that they won't bless and approve of and salute.
And it's unfortunate.

Speaker 12 I mean, again, this is not the way in which Article I branch of government, the United States Congress is supposed to function. And yet, here's where we are and we find ourselves.

Speaker 12 So, yeah, with respect to the Rules Committee, as you mentioned, it's a unique committee in the Congress because it's the only committee in the Congress that, A, has no time limit in terms of the questions that are posed by members or the answers that are provided.

Speaker 12 And then, secondly, as you said, it's an opportunity to be able to question your own colleagues.

Speaker 12 And in my view, when you're coming in front of the Rules Committee and you're making the case to the American people for a policy that you're pursuing, then you ought to be artfully and honestly questioned about your own views and how they comport with the particular position you're taking.

Speaker 12 And often as is the case, a lot of these members don't like ultimately being

Speaker 12 told or rather having it revealed to them the position they had taken on a particular issue previously that just lays bare the hypocrisy, which is all too common these days in Washington.

Speaker 6 You represent a district in Colorado. I would say on the whole, Colorado as a state is bluer, but there are certainly lots of red dots within Colorado as well and purplish areas in Colorado as well.

Speaker 6 You know, what are you hearing? from constituents, not just Democrats, but like, are you hearing from independents and Republicans?

Speaker 6 And are you hearing across the board in Colorado that there's kind of a a growing frustration? Would be putting it, I think, gently to what Elon Musk and Trump is doing.

Speaker 6 Do you feel this is still kind of people are in their partisan camps? What are you seeing in your state?

Speaker 12 I think my answer to the first part of your question is unquestionably yes.

Speaker 12 I think people are frustrated, and we hear from folks across the political spectrum about their frustration and displeasure with the way in which the Trump administration is conducting itself.

Speaker 12 I mean, look, I represent, you mentioned this, a district, of course, in my view, the best district in the United States of America, but it's a large geographical district.

Speaker 12 It's larger than nine states, central and northern and western Colorado, right? Rural communities, urban communities, suburban communities, you name it.

Speaker 12 And as I go across my district doing town halls, because as House Democrats, we do town halls. We actually enjoy town halls and visiting with constituents and listening to them and their concerns.

Speaker 12 I hear from folks who are deeply troubled by the mass purge of federal employees, right, at the Forest Service.

Speaker 12 These are people doing wildfire mitigation work, preventing the next megafire in the Rocky Mountain West.

Speaker 12 People who are concerned about the land management agencies and the people working in our federal labs at NOAA and NIST, who are now being unceremoniously fired and purged from the federal workforce.

Speaker 12 They are concerned about the rising cost of living in an administration that clearly has no intention of doing anything about it and instead is only pursuing policies that will exacerbate the problem, right?

Speaker 12 I mean, you're an average working family looking at your 401k and realizing that in the last six weeks, the Trump administration has erased all gains in the last year.

Speaker 12 I mean, and clearly a recession potentially looming on the horizon. So yeah, folks are...
Folks are pissed off, just to be candid.

Speaker 12 As I talk to people in my district, again, across the political spectrum, it's not to suggest that people don't want to see government reform. I think folks are hungry for reform.

Speaker 12 They're hungry to see fraud, waste, and abuse, you know, rooted out of the government, but they don't want to see a chainsaw, a literal chainsaw taken to the core functions of the federal government that serve Coloradans each and every day.

Speaker 12 They did not sign up for that.

Speaker 6 And I just don't think anybody signed up for the chaos. It's every day.
Tariffs, no tariffs.

Speaker 3 Tariffs are great.

Speaker 2 Tariffs are the worst.

Speaker 6 What are we going to do? Am I going to invade Greenland today? Am I going to invade Canada today, 51st date day? Is today a Panama Canal Conquest Day?

Speaker 3 What are we talking?

Speaker 6 Are we talking about fentanyl in Mexico today?

Speaker 6 Where are we going with this? Is he going to send a shalom Hamas text? Is he going to post images of himself in Trump Gaza City with bearded people with cleavage?

Speaker 6 I always say we can't normalize this behavior. And then there's like a gaslighting element to it as well.

Speaker 6 Like, you know, he'll have, you know, Peter Navarro, who, by the way, served jail time for, you know, his conduct relating to contempt of Congress.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Contempt of Congress. He's out there right now

Speaker 6 asking Canada, can you please just tamp it down, tamp down the rhetoric.

Speaker 2 Canada, he goes, tamp down the rhetoric.

Speaker 2 Watch this.

Speaker 13 But frankly,

Speaker 13 the Premier, he's been, I mean, look, just tamp it down, please, over there. Okay, the throwing down the hockey gloves.

Speaker 13 Stop that rhetoric. And let's just look at what we're trying to do.

Speaker 13 We love Canada, but look, there's some big issues there and we're not going to tolerate anything but them stopping killing Americans and

Speaker 13 doing what's right with respect to things like steel and aluminum, which they've been dumping into our country and that's stopping.

Speaker 10 I mean,

Speaker 1 this is not normal.

Speaker 12 Yeah,

Speaker 12 you're precisely right. I don't know that I could say it better than you just did.
I mean, look, it's absurd. It's ludicrous.

Speaker 12 It's just sort of arsonists that are now complaining about the fire that they have created.

Speaker 12 And unfortunately, this is the most tragic part of all, is that there will be mass collateral damage to the absurdities of the policies that they are pursuing.

Speaker 12 And so, you know, I think about the average working family in my district that's struggling to be able to buy a new car because car prices are soaring through the roof.

Speaker 12 Interest rates are still remarkably high. And what are they left with?

Speaker 12 They're left with, you know, the car infomercial that the President of the United States conducted earlier today on the White House lawn. That is their policy prescription, right?

Speaker 12 It is to engage in these reckless economic policies, the tariffs and the rest, unnecessary trade wars, and then ultimately offer nothing of actual consequence to the American people who are really struggling.

Speaker 12 And from my perspective, that's the most confounding part of all. House Democrats are going to remain focused,

Speaker 12 as Leader Jeffries often says, keeping the main thing, the main thing, which is quality of life cost of living addressing core challenges that the american people face that republicans refuse to address and as i said if anything are exacerbating

Speaker 6 there you have it i'd love to this is your first time on the midas touch network we got to have you we got to have you back you know

Speaker 6 there's a reason that asin has so many clips of you because as a former litigator i love your style i love your examinations and i always point it out to him so it's great to finally have you on the network and we hope you come come back on.

Speaker 12 Oh, the feeling is mutual. I'm glad to come on.
I've been telling my buddy Moskowitz, he keeps saying, You got to go on, you got to go on. I've been watching for a long time.

Speaker 12 So I definitely look forward to coming back.

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