MAGA Mike Shuts Down House Floor and Cancels Votes!!!!

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0:30Ben Meiselas:Maga Mike has done it again, shutting down the House floor at 2.03 a.m. on Friday morning and saying, we ain't going to be working on the House floor as members of Congress until Monday at 12 p.m. in the afternoon. If you take a look at the minutes as I've been analyzing from the House clerk, you'll see what went down at 2 a.m. in the morning, 2.10 a.m. in three seconds to be exact. The House adjourned pursuant to a previous special order. The next meeting is scheduled for 12 p.m. on April 20th, 2026. And if you delve a little bit deeper into what happened, there was a unanimous consent motion that the House would be adjourned on Friday morning at basically at 2 a.m.

1:20Ben Meiselas:so people would stop working until Monday. Now, there was hearings still in the House of Representatives and the Senate. We've been covering those. But in terms of votes on the House floor, Bag of Mike shut that down. And I don't know what vote may be significant on the House floor. I don't know. Maybe assert your Article 1 authority to stop Donald Trump from engaging in this unlawful and catastrophic war as Donald Trump pretends that Iran opened up the Strait of Hormuz and there's free access. And guess what? According to Donald Trump, American military excavators working side by side with their friends, the Iranian excavators, and they're going to find that nuclear dust together.

2:03Ben Meiselas:They're putting in a little nuclear dust bin. They're bringing it back to the United States. One problem, everything false. Ships ain't leaving the Strait of Hormuz. There's no free access through it. Iran controls it with an iron fist. Iran ain't giving up their uranium. Donald Trump just lied about everything. But guess what? He called up a lot of reporters. He called up CBS and he called up NBC and Reuters and Newsdation and this one and that one and Axios. And they all just said, Donald Trump said, Donald Trump said, do you see the coordinated plan right here? Let me spell it out for you. MAGA Mike shuts down the House floor to stop additional votes regarding the War Powers authorization to potentially stop Donald Trump from this unlawful conduct, or at least bring it to the people's attention.

2:57Ben Meiselas:MAGA Mike shuts down the House floor. Donald Trump lies, manipulates the market, calls up all the members of the press, makes up yet another fake deal that doesn't happen. But did you pay attention to what went down late last night? Did you see what went down? It was announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessenter, I should say. There was a little footnote that went out the wire when people discovered that the United States was extending the revocation of sanctions against Russia. You know how Spessin said, we're going to keep those sanctions on against Russia after we have a deal. Well, now you're claiming there is a deal, which you obviously don't.

3:41Ben Meiselas:And you've continued to remove the sanctions against Russia. Russia, the big beneficiary, the Russian sanctions of the sanctions on Russian oil removed. Now Russia could sell their oil and make billions and billions of dollars. So Magamike shuts it down. And then Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, he's the one starting to, you know, he's messaging this and he's asked, so why aren't people feeling good about the economy? Watch what Besson says as the House floor shut down. Play this clip. Why aren't we seeing this sentiment? Why are people feeling better? Well, when I was in the investment business, there are consumer surveys, but I used to look at what are the people really doing?

4:26So at Treasury, we have loads of CEOs come through, whether they're in retail, credit card the banks and the consumer uh while they may be uh sounding uh grim is actually quite brilliant so we we are seeing spending has been very solid across most categories so they may not feel good but well look in the heart of hearts they feel good i'm not sure what they're telling

4:51Ben Meiselas:the survey people and then you had uh commerce secretary howard lutnik and howard lutnik starts to say that he hates people who suck. He's like, the worst thing is that there are sucking sounds and people keep sucking off and sucking. What is he talking about here? Play this clip. The worst thing I learned when I went into government is the sucking sound of how many people try to suck off of the US government. I mean, it's so demoralizing to watch that stuff. Look. And then he says, don't you worry, everybody. 6 % GDP growth, it's right around the corner. Here, play this clip. The mentals of the U.S.

5:29economic underpinning remain. Right. The war changed that model of created fear and uncertainty. But the growth rate in the United States will hit six percent of Donald Trump's leadership. It will hit six percent annual GDP growth under Donald Trump's leadership. But not this year. Well, let's see. Let's see. I mean, you know, yeah, today, if the Straits of Ramos opens, there's always a band with like the Latinx thing at the top. and then like you got Treasury down here and the Democrats down here, but you're holding it at 6 %? I am because I know the commitments of build in America.

6:06Ben Meiselas:I mean, the fact. And then he says, Canada sucks. He goes, they're sucking sounds. Then he says, Canada sucks. And this is a weird, weird regime. Here, play this clip right here. The time is on our side because the pressures on the U.S. are only going to increase over time. Basically, you guys are in political trouble. The longer they wait, the better a deal you're going to have to do. Good for them. That is like the worst strategy I've ever heard. They suck. They look, we are a 30 trillion dollar economy. Right. We are the consumer of the world. OK, Carney has a problem with us. He gets on a plane and he goes to China.

6:44Does he think China's the Chinese economy is going to buy his stuff? China is entirely an export-driven economy, right? So what did he do? He came back and said, oh, we'll take their electric cars. I mean, is this nuts?

6:59Ben Meiselas:So as MAGA Mike shut down the House floor, you then have MAGA Republican Stutzman, he goes on CNN, and here's what he has to say. Play this clip. President Trump is a tough negotiator. I mean, we've been really able to watch him negotiate almost as a general public through the Truth Social Post and there's days you're like, wow. But this is the way he negotiates. He's a tough negotiator and he gets results. Including threatening taking out an entire civilization. Well, and you know what? That was one of the things that, as he said, they say death to Israel, death to America. And I think we have to take them seriously.

7:36And while they are a much smaller country and they don't have the capabilities that we do as Americans, we still have to take it seriously. And I think that those were the types of words that they understood what those meant. I believe that he never intended to do that, but it was simply the rhetoric to put them in a position of he means business.

7:57Ben Meiselas:I mean, you can't even admit that threatening an entire civilization is bad. You can't just say, no, we shouldn't be threatening to eliminate an entire civilization. That's called a genocide. What are these people doing? Then you have Jim Jordan saying, look, I just think the Democrats are crazy. They're crazy folks. They're crazy, crazy, crazy people. Hey, Jim Jordan, meet a mirror. Y 'all are actually a bunch of lunatics. Here, play this clip. No, I mean, I think we're going to win. I think we're going to win because the left, every position they take is crazy. You know, I was I don't know if I said this on your show a few weeks ago, but I was doing some interview and I said, I think this is this election is really going to come down to a couple of sentences.

8:41They're crazy. We're not. And you can look at every policy they have. We just talked about sanctuary jurisdiction policy. That's crazy. Makes no absolute no sense. This idea that we're going to defund ICE makes no sense. We're going to defund the police. That's crazy. We're going to have men compete against women in sports. That's crazy. We're going to shut down the government for 42 days in the fall. 50 some days here in the spring. All those things are crazy. So I do think we have to remind the voters that the left is crazy. All right, let me tell you about something I've been loving lately, article.

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10:26Ben Meiselas:And then while that was taking place, the one hearing that was going on, and we've been covering it, and I gotta give a hat tip to her, Democratic Congresswoman Summer Lee, her cross-examination of RFK Jr. So House floor shutdown, there were still hearings taking place. And the MAGA Republicans wanted to hold their performative hearings and not actually address issues. But take a look at this cross-examination by Congresswoman Lee. Let's play this clip right here. Your agency told programs to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications, including the word black.

11:02Do you have an idea of how we could solve the black total mortality crisis if we can't say black? President Trump is trying to end division in this country, not so division. Sorry, not eviction. During the last four years. That's what DEI did. It divided people. It polarized people. No, no, no, no, no. We're not talking about eviction. We're talking about health care. about DEI. We're talking about health care. Yeah. Prosperities. So what we're asking is if you attack DEI and then we have a crisis that impacts one population over another, but you cannot direct specific spending or research or interventions to that population, how do you solve the problem?

11:41Do you think the federal government should be paying for DEI? I think the federal government has a vested interest in ensuring that its citizens survive childbirth. well we we are meeting that obligation we are not oh that i can explain to you how we are you have not done so so far but also i would say that you know we can improve health care for everybody at the same time as helping the people who are most likely to die that's what de and i well first of all de and i make sure that we have black doctors um or women doctors or that we're talking about the fact that we have a mortality rate that is not matched by any other country as what we would call developed as ours.

12:23Really quickly. And yesterday. Now, what was going on with state regime media?

12:28Ben Meiselas:Here's what Fox talked about in terms of foreclosures increasing. Play this clip. According to realtor.com, home foreclosures jumped 26 % in the first three months of this year. The foreclosure rates were highest in Indiana, South Carolina and Florida. Back on CNN, Harry Enten had this rut row moment. Let's play this clip. It's the group that helped put him in the White House in 2016. And then again in 2024, the group that shifted tremendously from 2012 to 2016 and put him in the White House. We are talking about non-college white voters, and he is sliding right into the water. This is a rut row moment to quote the great Scooby Doo.

13:09Trump's net approval rating with non-college whites. Look at this. In February of 2025, it was plus 32 points. Down it goes. Look at Johnny. Johnny is just shocked by this number. And now it is minus two points. That is a 34-point shift. And I will note this as an average of polls. This is not just one poll. I've averaged three different polls here, three big pollsters. And what we see is Donald Trump actually underwater with non-college whites who, of course, put him in the White House. Really moment? Yes, really, John.

13:37Ben Meiselas:Democratic Congress member Adam Smith had the following to say. Let's play it. The president says Iran has said they're going to give up their, you know, any desire to have a nuclear weapon and that they're going to give up their enriched uranium. There's absolutely no evidence of that. And it would be remarkable if they have already agreed to give up their enriched uranium. It's also remarkable that the president of the United States can say something like that, which seems on the face of it to just be ridiculous. and it not be headlines that the president of the United States is, if he is making something up of that magnitude, that's extraordinary or should be extraordinary.

14:16Oh, God, that's just pure fantasy on his part. And look, this has been Trump. I mean, he's always saying stuff that's completely untrue. And somehow people have decided that's OK. It was never OK. All right. Whatever the alternatives may have been to have a president this disconnected from reality. I mean, remember, he's been saying for, what is it now, nine years that are sorry, seven years that Iran is begging him for a deal. They're begging him for a deal. And that was never true. So we have a president who doesn't even know what the truth is leading us into a devastating and costly war. And we had a vote today in the House to end this war.

14:57And all of the Republicans just signed up and saluted and said, let's follow the guy who's just making it up as he goes along. It's a huge problem that I think we need a lot more pushback against.

15:09Ben Meiselas:And finally, you had state regime media, which calls itself Fox, attacking the Democratic Congresswoman-elect Mejia, who just won in New Jersey's open congressional seat. And this is how Fox attacks her. They go, you know, in this Congresswoman-elect Mejia, she's against ICE. She accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. She wants to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. She believes in a$25 federal minimum wage. She wants to cancel all student loan debt. She wants to tax the wealthy. She wants universal health care. She wants universal child care. She's crazy. So just so you're all clear, when Jim Jordan and Trump and Besant and Lutnik and state regime media refer to Democrats as crazy.

16:02Ben Meiselas:The crazy policies that they claim are crazy. Just pull up the photo, guys. They're saying these policies are crazy when those policies are true and accurate and things that most Americans agree with right now, as they should. Play this clip of state regime. Let's play it. because mejia like aoc and bernie sanders believe that america at its core is evil and corrupt and of course she wants to abolish iac she wants universal child care universal health care canceling all student debt national minimum wage up to 25 dollars impeach clarence thomas and sam alito now this menu of destructive ideas is no longer considered though fringe in the democrat Party.

16:48It's gone totally mainstream. It is a deep hostility to our country, to our history, to the capitalist system.

16:58Ben Meiselas:There you have it, folks. Mag and Mike shutting it down yet again, shutting down the house floor. No votes. It's so ridiculous. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.

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