GOP Members Revolt Against Trump on House Floor

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3:17Ben Meiselas:for the extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which officially expire on December 31st, where Americans' health care premiums will double, triple, quadruple, and tens of millions of Americans will lose their health care. This is a dire emergency situation right now. MAGA Mike said he had a plan. He doesn't have a plan. So the MAGA Republicans saw what was able to be accomplished with the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which by the way, those Epstein files released is about a week away from being due. We'll make sure we continue to cover that. But now the MAGA Republicans are pushing through discharge petitions to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies because they realize their constituents are going to die if these Affordable Care Act subsidies are not extended.

4:09Ben Meiselas:And also you have MAGA Republicans circulating a discharge petition regarding stock trading by MAGA Republican Congress members and Congress members, frankly, from all parties, but a discharge petition there circulating from Anna Paulina Luna. And then when it gets to the Affordable Care Act subsidies, you have two separate discharge petitions that are circulating there. You have one discharge petition that's authored by MAGA Republican Congress member Brian Fitzpatrick and Jared Golden that would extend expiring tax credits for two years while imposing new eligibility requirements. And then there's another discharge petition by MAGA Republican Congresswoman Jen Kiggins and Josh Gothheimer, a Democrat, and that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by one year to allow for there to then be other plans, but at least it gets a one year.

5:09Ben Meiselas:Now, what the Democrats' position is, is that they want at least a three-year extension. They just want to have a vote, but MAGA Mike's refusing for there to be a vote on the House floor. So these MAGAs are basically saying, look, we need to do a discharge petition because we saw what happened this past Tuesday in Miami and in that Georgia House race where Democrats outperformed prior elections to the tune of 14 to 25 points. We saw what happened with the blue tsunami back in November. Democrats also performing. And MAGA Republicans realize that if they don't extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies, people in their communities and their constituents are going to die and they're going to lose their jobs.

5:52Ben Meiselas:So let's just go show you what some of these MAGA's are saying. This is MAGA Republican Brian Fitzpatrick. Here's what he had to say. Here, play this clip. Well, I say that if you don't have a better plan, then get on board with ours. But doing nothing is not an option, right? I mean, I've heard so many people in the Republican Conference rail on the Affordable Care Act, rail on Obamacare, rail on the premium tax credits. And if you want to criticize something, that's okay as long as you have a better alternative. They have never offered a better alternative. We went down this healthcare path, my friend, freshman term, I voted against the repeal of the ACA.

6:27I thought the replacement was insufficient. It was hastily put together, not well thought out. And here we are, you know, what, eight years later? And they still have not been able to put together an articulable plan that's going to work for everyday Americans. So, you know, is a premium tax credit structure perfect? No, it's not. I don't like the fact that there's no income caps. I don't like the fact that the money all goes to the insurance company and rather than having some go to the individual. But right now with a cliff upon us at the end of the year. I think we have to extend it out a minimum of two years

6:59Ben Meiselas:with guardrails, with income caps. That was a Congress member. Let's show you what MAGA Republican Senator Josh Hawley had to say so you can hear Hawley for yourself. Here, play this clip. How big of a problem would it be for your party if you do not come up with a plan for healthcare? Well, I mean, I just don't know how Republicans would explain that to 24 million Americans whose premiums are gonna double. We need to think about the human cost of this, I think, and Republicans need to offer an alternative solution. And now while all of this is taking place, MAGA Mike Johnson is refusing to do TV shows if they're going to ask him about extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies and about his health care plan.

7:41Ben Meiselas:Even CNBC's MAGA host, Joe Kiernan, admitted that MAGA Mike is now hiding. Here, play this clip right here. It doesn't seem to be moving because I think, you know, when we were we were trying to get them on and there was more or less the idea that, well, when we have something, you know, we'll be on and it should be by the I think it was supposed to be by the end of either last week or this week. But. Well, that was the commitment of the Senate to do that. But this this problem is created by the Democrats. Earlier in the day yesterday, MAGA Mike brought in to the Republican caucus room in a closed door session, all of the MAGA Republicans to discuss what they said are the better health care options.

8:29Ben Meiselas:None of them included extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. And they have all of these things like innovation, price transparency, site neutrality, health savings accounts, choice accounts, provider owned hospitals. This is what MAGA might claim that his plan was, a PowerPoint that just has words on it, like price transparency, site neutrality. Folks, this is serious stuff. And even the Republican Congress members are like, what the hell is this slide? That's not a plan. You're just saying words. Are we going to extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies or not? And when MAGA Mike's like, no, we're not putting it to a vote, you've had these discharge petitions.

9:08Ben Meiselas:Just if you're confused what a discharge petition is. If it gets the requisite signatures, then you have to wait seven legislative days like we saw with the Epstein files. And then after seven legislative days, it forces a vote on the House floor. And that is what is now circulating with the Affordable Care Act subsidies, with banning stock trading. You know, it's wild. We talk all the time about heart health, gut health, brain health, but almost never about the most underrated organ in your body, your liver. It's doing over 500 functions every single day, filtering unwanted elements, supporting digestion, helping with energy, and we usually don't think about it until something is wrong.

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11:09Ben Meiselas:Something else we're seeing on the House, at the House and in the Senate, a lot of these MAGAs are demanding the release of the footage of the double tap, the double strike where those survivors from the September 2nd boat strike were murdered. war crime, crime against humanity by the United States military. So we're seeing a lot of that. GOP support for releasing the video of the boat strikes increasing. Take a look here, Tom Tillis, and you've got other Republican senators as well here play this clip right here. Do you think it would make sense for the administration to release this video? I'm okay with it being released and I'm okay with whatever.

11:51We got to release the video. Look, we got to get the Epstein files released. We got to get any videos that do not in any way compromise mission integrity down there. Just get the stuff out there. Would you rather see a different secretary of defense? I just want to see the facts so I can make an informed decision.

12:07Ben Meiselas:And then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Mike McCall told Manu Raju, it looks like you're trying to hide something. And so for my 22 years in elective office, It's always better to be transparent and honest with the American people. And McCall says that these double tap strikes need to be released immediately. I want to show you just how the American people feel about the Obamacare subsidies and the Affordable Care Act in general. Obamacare is pretty popular. I mean, look, Obamacare has its problems. My own personal view, I prefer single payer and Medicare for all. over Obamacare. But Obamacare, with the subsidies bringing the prices down, allowed 20, 30 million Americans to get health care who would otherwise not have health care and die.

12:59Ben Meiselas:So Obamacare has saved people's lives. And the issue is, is that how do you deal with the fact like when the Republicans like, oh, just give people$2 ,000 instead of health care? No. Do you know what chemo costs? Do you know what surgeries cost? I mean, what happens? You know, it's like these Magus think that, oh, because you're not sick now doesn't mean you're going to get sick in the future. Like you're not going to get sick in the future. Like that's not the way sickness works. The idea of insurance is that one day we're all going to get sick, right? And that there's a pool of risk that we share in order to help people pay for the cost when there's, you know, real serious catastrophic stuff that they can't otherwise afford.

13:39Ben Meiselas:That's what's going on. So let's just take a look right here. A home care worker talks about how the Affordable Care Act saved her life. And she calls out Representative Ryan McKenzie. Here, play this clip. I'm just wondering, you know, what you say to Republicans' arguments like McKenzie, who say, look, this is because the Affordable Care Act, these premiums wouldn't be going up like this unless, you know, Democrats came up with the Affordable Care Act and then they put the expiration for the subsidies to the end of this month. So what do you say in response?

14:17the affordable care act saved my life first of all so anytime that there has been you know a tax on the ACA it's been from the republicans i will say that um uh before the ACA i did not have insurance as a home care worker it's not part of our benefits package we can't get it um and there i was just you know could not purchase insurance pre-existing conditions they wouldn't let me have it. The tax credits, obviously, were helpful. And, you know, honestly, Democrats are not in power right now. It's the Republicans. They're the ones that are making the decisions. They're the ones that need to extend the tax credits.

14:55So, I mean, they have control over that right now. I don't know what else to tell you. It's on their shoulders. That's right.

15:03Ben Meiselas:And then finally, you've got MAGA, Mike Johnson, doing his usual, like, running away from the press when they ask him, like, you know, Donald Trump said that, you know, all these African countries are shithole countries and we should be taking in immigrants only from countries with white people and not black people. What do you think about that, Maga Mike, that Donald Trump refers to African countries and other countries nearby as shithole? But he says, why are we bringing in like the white people from like Denmark and Norway? That's who we should have here. Like pretty racist stuff, Maga Mike, right?

15:37Ben Meiselas:Like I remember when Donald Trump denied during his first administration that he said that and now he's just saying it. Like, it's the height of racism. Like, it's despicable. Maga Mike, what say you? Here, play this clip. You referred to countries like Somalia, s**t, whole countries. You feel okay with that kind of language? Look, I'm baited every day with asking me to make a nasty comment about what the president or other members say. He's the president of the United States. Yeah, well, of course I have an opinion. That's not the way I speak and you know that. but the president is expressing his frustration about the extraordinary challenges presented to america we have people coming in not assimilating and trying to take over the country we had illegal aliens like 20 million marjorie taylor green also announced that she's signing the discharge petitions also with the competing discharge petitions the authors of the different discharge petitions are signing each other's discharge petitions there's one thing i want to note though So based on the fact that there are seven legislative days required after a discharge petition gets all of the requisite votes that are needed, the Affordable Care Act subsidies are going to expire.

16:52Ben Meiselas:If you just factor in what it would take to get these signatures and then you add seven days, there's only six, based on what MAGA Mike has done, there's only six legislative days left. Okay. So even if you got this signed today, the way MAGA Mike has shut down the calendar and has shut down work, unless the rules are changed, there are six legislative days, no matter what, even if it was fully signed today, you need seven legislative days after it gets all of the signatures. So that means the Affordable Care Act expires. So even when these things get passed, it gets passed late and people get kicked off their plan.

17:31Ben Meiselas:So then they're going to have to figure out that. What a mess MAGA Mike and these MAGAs have created. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million and thanks for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.

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