Rep. Moskowitz Discusses Trump Destroying Entire GOP

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Speaker 12 Republicans are absolutely losing it right now as the American people are livid. Can you extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies? And MAGA Republican is, you know what? This is what they're saying.

Speaker 12 You know what everyone's complaining about? It's not the extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies. They're wondering why we don't have talking lizards selling you health care on TV.
Am I right?

Speaker 12 Isn't that what the American people are asking for? I kid you not.

Speaker 12 That is what the MAGA Republicans are saying is part of their plan here watch what steve scalise mega republican said in the morning let's play it

Speaker 13 to lower costs the choice act

Speaker 13 which you know while everybody complains they say why when i watch tv commercials i see this gecko lizard and i see the emu and i see all these other animals out there selling health they're selling car insurance they're selling homeowners insurance why aren't they selling health insurance It's exactly the question on everybody's mind right now.

Speaker 12 Why aren't they selling health insurance? Then let me show you what Mike Lawler, a Republican, had to say, that it was political malpractice to not allow a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidy.

Speaker 12 Let's play it.

Speaker 14 Well, Mike Lawler is a very dear friend and close colleague of mine.

Speaker 14 Ironically, weekend before last, I was in New York, in his district on Long Island, and we were campaigning together, ensuring that he gets re-elected.

Speaker 14 Mike Lawler fights hard for New York, as every Republican in this conference does for their districts. The districts are different.

Speaker 14 They have different priorities and ideas, but we do have, there's about a dozen members in the conference that are in these swing districts who are fighting hard to make sure that they reduce costs

Speaker 14 for all of their constituents. And many of them did want to vote on this Obamacare, you know, COVID-era subsidy the Democrats created.

Speaker 14 We looked for a way to try to allow for that pressure release valve, and it just was not to be. We worked on it all the way through the weekend, in fact.

Speaker 14 And in the end, there was not an agreement, it wasn't made. Now, everybody was at the table in good faith.

Speaker 12 Now, a pressure release valve.

Speaker 12 It was not meant to be. What about that pressure release valve? That's how the American people are thinking about.
I really want to release that pressure valve.

Speaker 12 And then finally, you have MAGA Mike being asked. So Donald Trump said that his legislative agenda is done.
So if this is it, if it's done, why should people be voting for Republicans? If this is it.

Speaker 12 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 14 Well, I don't know which comment you're referring to and in what context, but I'll tell you, I talk to the president sometimes multiple times each day.

Speaker 14 He and I and his team and our teams work around the clock. Literally, the president and I will talk sometimes at midnight and then again at 6 a.m.
I mean,

Speaker 14 this president doesn't sleep. He's working all the time.
The agenda is aggressive. There is much more to do.
I think what he's sometimes when he's, I think he's taken out of context.

Speaker 12 It's always taken out of context. He never sleeps.
They talk in the the middle of the night. Let's bring in Democratic Congressmember Jared Moskowitz.

Speaker 12 Congressman Moskowitz, I just give you these layups sometimes at the beginning. Sometimes we're like, what should we talk about? I'll let you respond to those clips.

Speaker 12 Although it's some deeply serious stuff that they're kind of making light of, huh?

Speaker 7 It was a lot there, Ben. I don't even know where to begin.

Speaker 7 Can we go back to the characters from the insurance companies, like the gecko and the duck? And I like Scalise talking about, you know, all those zoo animals.

Speaker 7 I sometimes think that's reminiscence of what the house is like. It's probably why he felt comfortable.
He's actually not making a terrible point, by the way.

Speaker 7 It's something that we've discussed in Florida in the legislature for a long period of time, which is

Speaker 7 allowing insurance companies to sell specific lines of insurance that they make money on and allowing insurance companies to not sell certain lines of insurance that they don't make money on.

Speaker 7 In Florida, it's a home insurance issue where we let them sell auto insurance, but not home insurance. They always threaten to pull out of the market if we make them sell home insurance.

Speaker 7 Here's a similar thing, right? I mean,

Speaker 7 everyone should be selling all lines of insurance. Some of them will make a lot of money.
Some of them will be lost leaders.

Speaker 7 So he's not making a terrible point there, but I do like that he's using all of the

Speaker 7 lovely characters that we often often think about, which sometimes reminds us of Mike Johnson. You know, who gets to cosplay as speaker.
I love every time he's asked about the president.

Speaker 7 I mean, obviously, we know Speaker Johnson doesn't have any health issues that have been reported, but I mean, mean, he is, he's got memory problems. I'm like, I haven't seen that.

Speaker 7 I haven't heard about it. You're telling me about it for the first time.

Speaker 7 You know, the president, he likes words and all caps and commas.

Speaker 7 And, you know, he says things that are sometimes funny, you know, but I mean, man, Speaker Johnson just can't get away from having to, you know, figure out how to defend the president without making it look like he has completely no idea what's going on at any point in time

Speaker 7 in the Capitol.

Speaker 7 You know, as far as Lawler and the group of Republicans, look, they're trying to win their re-election. They know there's a tsunami coming.

Speaker 7 And the Republicans say they want to keep the House, but they're exposing their center members or supposed center moderate members who want to take a health care vote.

Speaker 7 Lawler's literally trying to save them from themselves, and they're not willing. to listen.
And so, look, that is what it is.

Speaker 7 I believe where we're at now is they're not going to extend the health care subsidies. I have 160,000 people in my district who receive those subsidies.

Speaker 7 People are going to immediately lose their health insurance. Others' health insurance is going to

Speaker 7 double or triple every month, and they won't be able to renew it because they won't be able to afford it.

Speaker 7 And Republicans are going to own this health care crisis. Ben, remember, 15 years they've had to develop a health care plan.
That's how old Obamacare is right now. 15 years they have had

Speaker 7 to try to develop a health care plan. Repeal and replace.
Remember that? They never did repeal, and they never came up with replace, right? We have a concept of a plan.

Speaker 7 In the first Trump administration, he said he was releasing it like every two weeks. That two weeks went on for three years, right? Then we're back,

Speaker 7 okay, you know, in a Trump administration.

Speaker 7 And, you know, they have a still have a concept of a plan. It's clearly in their Twitter drafts folder, right? It's still in the drafts.
They've not released it.

Speaker 7 I mean, 15 years seems like a long time. Not only that, they had 45 days when Mike Johnson furloughed us for the first time in American history, didn't let us come and do our congressional job.

Speaker 7 They had 45 days to come up with ideas, didn't do it. So we're going to go off this cliff.
They own it. It's really unfortunate.
They're going to hurt a lot of Americans in the process.

Speaker 12 And we're going off this health care cliff, where especially a lot of unemployed people or people transitioning to new jobs are on Affordable Care Act plans.

Speaker 12 A lot of individual business people on these Affordable Care Act plans at a time where we just got the job numbers and the job numbers aren't good. Up to 4.6% unemployment.

Speaker 12 If you look at job losses over the past year, up 54%, over 1.2 million jobs lost in the past year with Donald Trump.

Speaker 12 So there should never be a time where you're ripping away people's health care, but when you also have people becoming unemployed, this is a recipe for disaster and it's a disaster.

Speaker 7 I don't know if you know this, but the affordability thing is a hoax.

Speaker 12 That's what Donald Trump says. And he says, but let's go to your district because you have an interesting district in Florida.

Speaker 12 It was Trump almost won that district in the last election. DeSantis won that district by like a point.

Speaker 12 So I'm curious, though, if you've seen changes in your district on their outlook right now of the political dynamic with these very close races in 2024.

Speaker 12 And we're seeing plus 12, plus 14 Democratic overperformances. We saw what happened

Speaker 12 with the Democratic mayor winning there. What are you seeing in your district in Florida?

Speaker 7 Well, let's go backwards for a second. So, you know, Florida had had more Democrats, more registered Democrats.

Speaker 7 Even when we were electing Republican governors, we still had more registered Democrats in the state of Florida. But since COVID, that's dramatically changed.

Speaker 7 We've seen re-registrations in Florida, and we've seen obviously a lot of people moving to Florida from California and Chicago, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut since COVID.

Speaker 7 Now, Republicans outnumber Democrats in the state of Florida by 1.4 million registered voters when we outnumbered them by about 300,000 registered voters pre-COVID.

Speaker 7 So there's been a dramatic change in registrations to Florida clearly being a red state. You know, my district is a moderate district.

Speaker 7 They redistricted it just four years ago, tried to make it as Republican as possible.

Speaker 7 You know, this was a district that, you know, Ted Deutsch won by 13 points, then they redistricted when I first came in, and I won it by five in a year that Ron DeSantis won his re-election by two.

Speaker 7 So I overperformed with Ron DeSantis winning the state by 19 points, winning my district by two, and

Speaker 7 me winning by five. The district has become even more Republican since then, almost four years ago now, since I first got

Speaker 7 three years ago since I first got re-elected.

Speaker 7 And they're talking about even more redistricting. But you're hearing a lot of things.

Speaker 7 Some of my Republican colleagues are very worried that they don't want their districts to be touched because if their districts become less Republican with the wave that is coming,

Speaker 7 you know, they could lose their election. We also have a constitutional amendment in Florida that the voters put in the Constitution that bars political gerrymandering.

Speaker 7 So all of the folks out there are talking about how they're going to politically gerrymander. You know, that'll be used obviously in the coming depositions and the lawsuits.
So we'll have to see.

Speaker 7 I mean, it's a very, this is not working out as they intended because they were using Trump numbers when Trump was on the ballot when they were drawing these districts.

Speaker 7 And we're seeing now with Trump not on the ballot, they're having a turnout issue. We're clearly seeing a, you know, a Democratic wave coming.

Speaker 7 There's 150 years of history that shows when one party has all three branches of government, they lose either the House or the Senate

Speaker 7 coming up.

Speaker 7 And so look, you could have a circumstance where, you know, Democrats are going to dramatically overperform in 26, mainly because we're the alternative and mainly because a lot of their voters won't turn out.

Speaker 7 In Dade County, specifically, right, obviously, you know, they told the Venezuelans they wouldn't touch TPS, they told the Haitians they wouldn't touch TPS. That turned out not to be true.

Speaker 7 The temporary protective status, the Trump administration did come after those two communities.

Speaker 7 And the Cubans are obviously watching what's happening on folding on television, seeing some of the cruelty that's going on, seeing some of the insensitivity with families,

Speaker 7 and wondering, you know, what could happen in their neck of the woods.

Speaker 7 So, you know, Florida, still a Republican state, still dramatic Republican registration, but the trends are clearly not in Republican favor in 2026.

Speaker 12 Let's talk FEMA. You led emergency management in Florida, notably under the DeSantis administration, and you were widely credited for running that very successfully.

Speaker 12 And you're seeing right now the way FEMA is

Speaker 12 being run into the ground or has been run into the ground. I know there was supposed to be

Speaker 12 now infamously because Christine said that's where she had to go to when she left that hearing early last week, but they were supposed to do this FEMA review council where they were going to be, I guess, recommending.

Speaker 12 basically the in theory, this is what the purpose of this council, when it was set up by executive order, to destroy FEMA in Donald Trump's words and transfer it to the states, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

Speaker 12 And that executive order happened in January. I think it was supposed to be 120 days where that council was going to meet to make these recommendations about basically destroying FEMA.

Speaker 12 And then it never met then. And then it keeps getting canceled.

Speaker 12 And then Christy Noam said, that's why she had to leave the hearing last week when she was being asked about deporting veterans and rounding them up.

Speaker 12 What's the latest that you're hearing there? And in general, what's the latest you can tell us on FEMA? Because I don't even know who's running it.

Speaker 12 They brought in another conspiracy theorist guy to be the number two. Like, what's happening there?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, you did a pretty good rundown there. By the way, that hearing with Christy Noam was interesting.
I loved when, you know, my colleague Seth was like, Have you deported any veterans?

Speaker 7 She was like, Absolutely not. And he was like, Here's the veteran you deported.
It reminded me like a Maury Povitch show. You know, when you're like, Do you have any children?

Speaker 7 They're like, No, they're like, Here, come meet your boys.

Speaker 7 You know,

Speaker 7 it was very funny, and everyone knew she was going to walk right into that because she has no idea what's going on in her department.

Speaker 7 But, but

Speaker 7 here's what I would say about FEMA: it's actually not a laughing matter anymore.

Speaker 7 But the FEMA Council, believe it or not, then actually, FEMA Council was created to reform FEMA and save it.

Speaker 7 That was created as an effort, as an off-ramp from this, let's get rid of FEMA completely,

Speaker 7 which there are some in the administration that want to do. Christy Noam, Corey Lewandowski, want to get rid of it completely.
That's clear.

Speaker 7 I think there are others, especially the Republican governors, who understand that that's just not possible.

Speaker 7 You get rid of FEMA, states like Louisiana and Mississippi go bankrupt if they have a hurricane. You have places that are in Tornado Alley go bankrupt.
These are red states.

Speaker 7 In fact, FEMA helps red states more than they help blue states

Speaker 7 you know Florida and Texas obviously have bigger budgets but if they got you know if we had another season of you know Irma Harvey Maria same time if we had a cat five coming to South Florida without FEMA you'd blow up the Florida budget you'd have to blow up DT DOT blow up the healthcare budget in order to pay for for the cleanup so without you know you know spreading out the risk which is what FEMA does statewide when they come in using federal dollars states budgets are going to be disastrous.

Speaker 7 You'd have to raise taxes. And so I actually think they're trying to reform FEMA.
And look, FEMA needs reform.

Speaker 7 I think there's nothing wrong with that. That's a fair criticism.
But that reform is getting FEMA out of Homeland Security.

Speaker 7 And believe it or not, that was actually in the original report. In the original report done by this, it was like 100 and something pages long.
They were going to move FEMA out of homeland.

Speaker 7 Christy Noam actually stopped that. She pulled that out of the report and sent a shorter report to the White White House, not the full report that the entire council did.

Speaker 7 She then created her own summary of the report, sent it to the White House.

Speaker 7 Okay, I don't know where this is, obviously, because obviously I don't get information, but something tells me there's a disconnect between what Christy Noam is trying to accomplish and what the White House wants to try to accomplish.

Speaker 7 And I think they're the ones who canceled that meeting, and I think they're the ones who have paused this whole thing because they're hearing from Republican governors who can't get their reimbursement money out of FEMA, can't get it out of Christy Noam.

Speaker 7 You're talking billions billions of dollars for previous storms, things that were already declared under federal declaration, under presidential declaration, money that was spent at the local level, blowing up city-county budgets, okay, that they can't get their federally declared statutory money out of Christie Nome.

Speaker 7 And so, right now, FEMA is in a very perilous situation.

Speaker 7 Thank goodness for the American people and for the administration, quite frankly. We didn't have a hurricane this summer that would have just destroyed the agency.

Speaker 7 We got a little taste of it at that horrific flooding in Texas where FEMA couldn't even get its swift water rescue crews

Speaker 7 going because Christy Num wouldn't put them out there. You then had the director of that department resign in protest over that.
And so FEMA's not in a good place.

Speaker 7 I would say of all the agencies that have been destroyed, USAID and FEMA, USAID being gone, FEMA still being there, FEMA has been just completely obliterated, doesn't have a core mission, probably couldn't respond.

Speaker 7 We need to focus on response. We can do block grants.
We can block grant some of this money down to the states. I think states can handle handle that.
Not all the money has to be done up here.

Speaker 7 I agree with that. That's something the Republicans have put up.
I can support that. But I think we got to get FEMA out of homeland.
Homeland is slowing it down. It's a giant bureaucratic mess.

Speaker 7 And we just got to get it out of there. If we want FEMA to really serve the American people in their greatest time of need, and these disasters are not partisan.

Speaker 7 They hit Americans, left, right, center, doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 We got to go back to treating disaster management that way.

Speaker 12 Finally, before we go, just wanted to ask your thoughts about Susie Wiles' Vanity Fair interview, White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. She comes out of Florida politics.

Speaker 12 And that's what Vanity Fair says. Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms.
Wiles offered pungent assessments of Trump and his team. Mr.
Trump has an alcoholics personality. J.D.

Speaker 12 Vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade, and his conversion from Trump critic to ally was based not on principle, but sort of political because he was running for Senate.

Speaker 12 Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine ketamine user and an odd-odd duck whose actions were not always rational and left her aghast. Russ Vogt, the budget director, is a right-wing absolute zealot.

Speaker 12 And Attorney General Pombondi, completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files. Seems about spot on.

Speaker 7 Well, she's definitely right on the last two. I mean, Pam Bondi with the binders, you know, and the list is on my desk, then there is no list.
I mean, everyone knows that was a whiff.

Speaker 7 Let's not pretend like that's not the case. And everyone knows Russ Vought wrote Project 2025 and is a right-wing zealot.
So obviously

Speaker 7 none of those are breaking news. Listen, I know Susie, obviously, from Florida.
I consider Susie to be one of the most capable people I've ever met.

Speaker 7 That doesn't mean we agree politically, but from a capability standpoint and running a logistical operation,

Speaker 7 I mean,

Speaker 7 Susie knows what she's doing. I don't know what to make of the article.

Speaker 7 There's a lot of stuff going back and forth with what was said, what was not said,

Speaker 7 what was published, what was not published. But obviously, this is something that people are going to discuss.

Speaker 7 I did send a little note to James Comer this morning, who wants to schedule these depositions for Hillary and Bill.

Speaker 7 In that article, it specifically said there is no evidence in any of the files dealing with Bill Clinton that they were just wrong about that. So sorry, James, another thing that you touch dies.

Speaker 7 But as your friend, I'm always praying for you.

Speaker 12 Congressman Jaron Moskowitz, thanks for joining us. Everybody, hit subscribe.
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