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And so his plan, which is to destroy elements of the Federal Government and State governments and the nonprofit sector that help regular people; his plan to try to intimidate and harass Federal workers; his plan to try to make folks who…
And all the Federal employees who have been furloughed from the USAID employees to all the folks who are doing DEI to the FBI agents, they are still getting paid right now, right? So for the last week, all those USAID employees were sent…
--is absolutely absurd, that there are too many Democrats. So I guess we are going to shut down any Agencies that have 50 percent plus 1 Democratic affiliation, and we are going to hold on to Agencies in which the employees are 50 percent…
It is like if you read about all the people who were going to quit anyway, but quit and got a payout and the people who are at home locked out of their e-mail but still getting paid, it is almost like there is a different agenda. And…
Listen, if not for lawyers who brought lawsuits, if not for judges who issued injunctions, we would be in a different kind of crisis today. So we are talking about public outrage at an executive action--that was midwived, in part, by the…
If there is any internet. So there are places, when it comes to government and government services, for which there is a proper role for the private sector. We have long had public-private partnerships. Inside the Department of Defense, I…
Yes. And, to your point, when profit is the only motive, somebody loses out as in your example about, you know, a health clinic in a rural area. It is true also of education, right? I mean, it is pretty costly. It is not monetizable to…
But what Trump says, whether or not he ends up implementing it, sets the agenda for his party. So what is the Speaker talking about and what are many of our colleagues talking about with respect to aid to California? Yes, they are very…
And they dressed that up for, like, 2 days, suggesting that they were reviewing USAID for efficiencies. For 1 day, they said they were folding it into the State Department because it would be more efficiently run inside the State…
I would say 98, 99 percent of Americans are a no on that. In his first term, he said a lot of things that he never even tried to do. He said a lot of reckless things that he never actually followed up on. And during the campaign, he said…
Just for the record, Senator Schatz, it is Diet Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew is disgusting. Diet Mountain Dew is acceptable.
I think it is two or three times the amount of caffeine that a Red Bull has. There is a reason why the conversion is happening--not that I have an intimate understanding of which beverages have which amounts of caffeine. But I am motivated…
And, listen, you had Trump's first term as evidence, right? Obviously, President Trump says a lot of things that he has no intent of doing. News flash: We aren't going to invade and occupy Gaza. But he says a lot of things
You can't say female; you can't say gender. I have the list here. It is absolutely patently absurd, right? Do you remember, OK, so that is an element of DEI, but there is another element of DEI. So when that tragic plane crash happened…
Because it was too hard, as he explained, to try to pick out the really violent ones from the nonviolent ones. Later tonight, I am going to read through some of the very easily accessible stories of the really violent protestors. It wasn't…
It may be back online, but no one knows whether that's for sure, because Russel Vought and Donald Trump think they may be above the law.
It would not help us to be working with Republicans at the very moment the Constitution is being lit on fire.