Trump Gets Betrayed by Senate GOP as Desperation Grows

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1:05Ben Meiselas:That right there was the United States Senate with the help of some Republicans voting to cancel Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada. Now, two days ago, you'll recall we reported here how the United States Senate, with some votes by Republicans, voted to cancel Donald Trump's tariffs against Brazil. Those 50 percent tariffs Trump imposed arbitrarily, capriciously and maliciously against Brazil. Also yesterday, you had at least 14 GOP members, get this, in the House of Representatives, wrote to the Trump regime and said that your plan to import Argentinian beef and your$40 billion bailout of Argentina is not something that the farmers of the United States want to see.

1:58Ben Meiselas:14 GOP members in the House. And there's more. We also have been hearing rumblings that Senator Thune, the MAGA Republican majority leader in the Senate, is trying to figure out a way to get out of this government shutdown because he realizes that Americans overwhelmingly blame Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the Senate and the House for this shutdown. Of course they do. They control all of the branches of government and they don't have a health care plan, except they want to rip health care away from 20 million Americans and rip away SNAP supplemental nutrition assistance programs from 42 million Americans.

2:39Ben Meiselas:And Thune is getting heat from his Republican members in the Senate. And then, of course, we're seeing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and even Senator Howley out there saying that this effort to get rid of the snap for 42 million Americans that's taking place right now by the Trump regime is unacceptable. Josh Howley from Missouri and Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia. Let's just break it all down. So let's start off with what happened yesterday, where the United States Senate, with some votes from MAGA Republican senators as well, they voted to cancel the tariffs against Canada. Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul joined with the Democrats, and the Senate voted 50 to 46 to stop Trump's tariffs on Canada.

3:31Ben Meiselas:Now, we shouldn't think that that's going to pass in the House of Representatives. MAGA Mike, Donald Trump's puppet and stooge, has already voted to relinquish all power that the House has over its Article One authority, which is the taxation authority and tariffs are taxes. So MAGA Mike's not even going to take this up as a vote. But at least in the Senate, a statement has been made by the United States Senate on a decently bipartisan basis. I won't get carried away here, but on a decently bipartisan basis, that Trump's tariffs against Canada are unlawful and should be repealed. Remember, two days ago, I reported the Senate also voted to cancel Trump's tariffs against Brazil.

4:15Ben Meiselas:Same thing, the House of Representatives under MAGA Mike are not going to take up a similar resolution. In fact, they've already voted that they've relinquished all of their power over Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. But by the way, this is going now before the United States Supreme Court, which is going to get ready to rule soon on Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. So a statement being sent there as well. But then in the House of Representatives yesterday as well, here's what we saw. In one of the biggest breaks from Trump, 14 GOP members told Trump administration its plan to bring in Argentinian beef and do a$40 billion bailout of Argentina.

5:00It's not OK.

5:01Ben Meiselas:And it undermines American cattle producers. And we've seen Ways and Means Committee's chair, Jason Smith, former Trump administration 1.0 officials, Max Miller and Beth Van Dunn. I mean, here's what they wrote. They wrote to Secretary Brooke Rollins, Department of Agriculture, and Ambassador Greer. They said, this is how they started off, because they're pathetic, but they go, we write to commend the Trump administration's leadership in supporting American farmers. But then it says, we respectfully draw your attention, however, to the recently announced plan to expand imports of Argentine beef as a means of easing retail prices.

5:41Ben Meiselas:Well, we share the administration's goal of lowering costs for consumers. We are concerned that granting additional market access to Argentina, already one of our largest beef suppliers, will undermine American cattle producers, weaken our position in ongoing trade negotiations and reintroduce avoidable animal health risks. Yeah. In Argentina, the cattle is suffering from a significant case of foot and mouth disease. So Trump's like, give me that foot and mouth disease right here in the United States and let's screw over our cattle ranchers. And Trump calls them his cattle people. He goes, the cattle people love me.

6:19Ben Meiselas:The cattle people love you? I don't think so anymore. I guess you could try to defraud them more and say you're bringing in$22 trillion or you're going to give them Doge dividend checks. Where'd that go? Or tariff rebate checks. But you are just a bigger version of Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme was$64 billion. Yours is$23 trillion. Also, it should be noted that independents overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly hate Donald Trump ripping down the East Wing of the White House. Who would have thunk? So even Democratic Senator Cory Booker is posting this Fox News, put news in quotes, article that says the following, Senate GOP is divided as millions risk losing food aid in shutdown standoff.

7:08Ben Meiselas:Missouri Senator Josh Howley's bill has 10 GOP co-sponsors, but Thune, the majority leader, calls a piecemeal funding approach the wrong way. Senator Cory Booker, Democrat from New Jersey, says, I've never hesitated to join a Republican colleague standing up for the American people. While Republicans need to reopen the government, we can't hold food assistance hostage. I'm backing Senator Hawley's bill to keep SNAP going during the shutdown. Leader Thune needs to bring it to a vote now. So you all see what Senator Hawley was saying seven or eight days ago. He talked about his piece of legislation to fund SNAP right now.

7:54Ben Meiselas:And I want to mention this before I play this clip. But right now, SNAP should not be taken away no matter what. Obviously, it's, you know, that MAGA Republicans, the fact that they've already gutted$186 billion from SNAP and the disastrous budget bill is horrific. But there's a contingency fund, an emergency fund that has about$6 billion in it, maybe $5.5 billion, which can be accessed right away. MAGA said, oh, we can't access it. Absolutely can access it. In fact, the Office of Management and Budget and the United States Department of Agriculture website said that they can access it a few days ago, but they removed that from the website because they want to starve Americans to death.

8:35Ben Meiselas:They think that's a winning political issue for them. But separately, I'm going to show you right here. You know, we always bring the receipts on the Midas Touch Network. So Josh Hawley, Senator, MAGA Republican from Missouri, says, let's just, even while the shutdown is taking place, let's fund SNAP. Democrats are saying, we agree. hey, let's do that. But MAGA Republicans are still blocking it. And MAGA Mike Johnson won't bring that to the floor. Here's what Hawley says, just so you see MAGA Republican. Here's what he's got to say. Here, play this clip. Well, there's certainly enough time. And my bill also makes the SNAP benefits retroactive, the funding for them.

9:10So if there were to be a lapse, which I hope there would not be, it would be compensated for with back funding. Here's the bottom line. Needy families in Missouri should not be going hungry because a bunch of politicians in D.C. can't figure out how to open the government. I mean, that's the bottom line. This is day 23 of this government shutdown. I was opposed to it on day one. I'm opposed to it on day 23. I don't want to see children in our state not be able to eat, have to miss a meal because the government is shut down and the politicians in Washington don't know what to do. I just think it's ridiculous.

9:39So I hope everybody will support this. I don't know who could be against needy kids being able to eat. I guess we'll find out because I'm going to try to give every senator the opportunity to vote on this. I'm going to take this to the floor as soon as I'm allowed to under the rules, and I'm going to try to get a vote on this. But bottom line is 650 ,000 people in Missouri depend on help when it comes to the price of food and groceries. And I don't want to see these folks go without food. Time for some talk. Life insurance talk, that is. You probably have it, but do you know how much you're paying for it and how much are you being covered?

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11:44Ben Meiselas:So you see what he's saying there. Now, let me show you what Marjorie Taylor Greene is posting now. Marjorie Taylor Greene posts what the monthly premiums are going to now be for people in her area. This is what Marjorie Taylor Green says. It's the explosion head emoji. And she goes, this is for self-employed married parents in their 30s with four kids. And then she goes on to say, Democrats did this with Obamacare 15 years ago. And Johnson says Republicans have a mystery plan that is yet to be revealed to fix it. But no one knows what it is. And we're told to stay home in our districts. Mark Meredith goes, there are nine options for health insurance in my zip code.

12:26Ben Meiselas:Here are the three silver plans, and they're all $3 ,600 a month,$3 ,800 a month. So when you extrapolate that,$1 ,200,$2 ,200,$3 ,500 a year for these silver plans. Now, let me be very clear. With the subsidies, these would be decreased significantly. Now, do I think Obamacare is perfect? No. What do I want? Let me be clear. I want universal health care. I want to tax the rich more money. That's what I want to do. And I want to make sure that health care is free. That's my plan. What's your plan, Ben? Tax the rich, fund health care. Simple, okay? Then you have Obamacare, which is make sure everybody gets health care, then use subsidies to try to bring it down.

13:09Ben Meiselas:But then there still may be not the best health care. It's still expensive, but the subsidies try to bring it down. And then what's your other plan outside of those two? Give me an option. And even Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, I don't see MAGA Mike's plan because there is not an option. She then goes on to post, is it too much for me to ask what is my party's plan to build the off-ramp off of Obamacare onto price transparency, a competitive market, and affordable high-quality care? November 1st is Saturday, starting open enrollment with already high premium skyrocketing. It's been 15 years. Well, the issue is, is that we know what existed before Obamacare, where 20 million plus Americans didn't have insurance.

13:52Ben Meiselas:Insurance companies could discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and premiums were high and in many cases unaffordable or they just wouldn't cover you. So we have to reflect on, we all want transparency. We all want there to be affordable healthcare. I want healthcare to be free. But who's coming up with these plans? I mean, you know, and we haven't seen it. You have what, MAGA Republican Senator Scott from Florida, who was involved in the biggest, he made his money being the perpetrator of the biggest Medicare, Medicaid scam in history, where his company pled criminally guilty to these crimes of Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and he got a golden parachute.

14:37Ben Meiselas:So show me the better plan. And by the way, the reason that Obamacare has not made the premiums cheaper, although the subsidies have worked, is that the Republicans have always attacked it and try to go to the Supreme Court and rip this apart and rip that apart rather than try to make it better. That's the truth of the situation. By the way, Marjorie Taylor Greene posts the following as well. She goes, Israel's military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. 46 children died in Palestine since the declaration of a ceasefire, which I've been calling out as this is not a peace deal, number one.

15:21Ben Meiselas:And number two, it's not even really a ceasefire because when 46 children die and 140 people are killed, and you see the bombings in Gaza City, and Hamas has not disarmed, and they're still running the show. And Netanyahu says he doesn't support a two-state solution. Then what are we talking about here? The Associated Press reports the data. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene consistently has said, you left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session. I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan and the off-ramp is. Johnson said he's got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call.

16:05Ben Meiselas:Apparently, I have to go into a SCIF, a sensitive compartmented information facility, to find out what the Republican health care plan is, because it simply doesn't exist. Then you have MAGA Republican Senator Moreno, and this is what he says to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Play this clip. The other part of this, though, is what is going to happen with these subsidies, because the thing that Republicans have argued is if Democrats would reopen the government, then you can have the conversation about what to do on that. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying that Republicans don't have a plan on how to bring down health care costs.

16:38If the government are open tomorrow, do you think Republican leaders have a plan on that? Yeah, absolutely. And I would say to Marjorie Taylor Greene, I like her. She came out to Ohio a few times. She's certainly able to write a bill herself. Like if this is something she's passionate about, put pen to paper, write a bill, present an option. Don't just criticize what other people are doing. in terms of what Republicans think is that the marketplace should work. What Obamacare has proven is that it's a total abject failure at keeping costs affordable, ironically, in the name.

17:07Ben Meiselas:Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene then says in a podcast that she did recently. Prices have not come down at all. The job market is. Job market is still extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Car insurance goes up every year. People's homeowners insurance goes up. Uh, rent is going up. People, young people have no hope of buying a home. And then when they try to buy a home, they end up, like I said, they end up competing with like Blackstone or somebody average home buyer. Now it's 38 years old. It just came out. Right. The average home buyer, 38 on the flip side, baby boomers can't sell their homes.

17:46They pay massive capital gains taxes. They don't know like, well, what do I move to? How do I downsize? I can't replace what I have. Right. So there are problems on both ends. Some of my own personal family members, some of my own personal friends, they're getting by month to month charging up their credit cards.

18:04Ben Meiselas:And now here's what Democratic Congresswoman Stansberry, who from New Mexico, we've had on, you know, we're a big fan of Congresswoman Stansberry on this program. And here's what she had to say on the show. Here, play this clip. But I'll be honest, I'm deeply ashamed to have to stand here today as our country is on the brink of a food and hunger crisis that is completely manufactured by the White House. So let me start out by saying this. Mr. President, Leader Thune, Speaker Johnson, if you are watching this, American lives are not a political game. 42 million Americans, half of them children, will not be able to put food on the table on Saturday in three days if you do not release the funds that have already been appropriated to fund the SNAP program.

18:5842 million Americans. And this is a choice that you are making to starve American children, elders, seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, because you think that this is a political game and we are not here to play. So feed our children.

19:22Ben Meiselas:So there you have it. Let me know what you think. But again, Senate voting to cancel the Brazil tariffs. Senate voting to cancel Canada tariffs. Senate vote, House GOP attacking Trump strategy on Argentina. the Senate recognizing Americans are blaming the Republicans overwhelmingly for the shutdown, and rightfully so. They control all the branches of government, and the MAGAs in the House aren't even speaking to Democrats, yet alone negotiating. Remember Schoolhouse Rocks, right? Or just your fifth grade government class? The parties are supposed to speak with each other. The Democrats are showing up for work.

19:59Ben Meiselas:The Republicans aren't showing up for work. Isn't it that simple? In the House. Then the Democrats are holding town halls. The Republicans are not holding town halls. Doesn't that tell you? I mean, isn't it as simple as that sometimes? Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. 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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