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

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on MAGA Mike Johnson canceling the House votes on Friday and shutting down the House Floor as Republicans face a massive crisis caused by Trump’s catastrophic lea...

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Magamik has done again shutting down the house floor at 203 a.

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 in Friday morning at basically a 2 a.m. so people would stop working until Monday.

Now, there was hearing still in the house of representatives in 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 that house floor. I don't know maybe assert your article one authority to stop Donald Trump from engaging in this unlawful and catastrophic war as Donald Trump pretends that Iran opened up the straight of hormones 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. They're putting in a little nuclear dust bin. They're bringing it back to the United States. One problem, everything falls.

Ships ain't leaving the straight of hormones. There's no free access through it. Iran controls it with an iron fist.

Iran ain't given up their uranium. Donald Trump just lied about everything. But guess what?

He called up a lot of porters, reporters. He called up CBS and he called up NBC and Reuters and News Station 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. Magamike 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. Magamike 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 Bessent, or 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 Spessent 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 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 Bessent, he's the one starting to, you know, he's messaging this and he's asked, so why are people feeling good about the economy? Watch what Bessent says as the House floor shut down play this clip. Why aren't we seeing this sentiment? Why are people feeling better? Well, I, you know, I when I'm

in the investment business, there are consumer surveys, but I used to look at what are the people really doing. So at Treasury, we have loads of CEOs come through, whether they're in retail, credit card, the banks, and the consumer while they may be sounding a grim is actually quite buoyant. So we were seeing spending has been very solid across most categories. So they may not feel good, but well, that, look, in the harder hard state deal, I'm, I'm not sure what they're

telling the survey people, and then you had a commerce secretary, Howard Lutnik, and Howard Lutnik

starts to say that he hates people who suck. He's like the worst thing is that they're sucking

sounds and people keep sucking off and sucking. What is he talking about? You're playing this clip. The worst thing I learned when I went into the government is the sucking sound of how many people try to suck off of the US government. I mean, it was, 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. Mentos of the US economic underpinning remain. Right? The war changed

That model of created fear and uncertainty.

6% of Donald Trump's leadership. It will hit 6% 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, the strains of

our moves open. There's always a band with like the Latin 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 have built in America. I mean, the fact. And then he says Canada sucks. He goes, they're sucking sounds. And he says Canada sucks. And this is a weird, weird, weird regime. Here, play this clip right here. The time is on our side because the pressures on the US are only getting increased 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 war strategy I've ever heard. They suck. They look. We are a 30 trillion dollar economy. Right? We are the consumer of the world. Okay, Corny has a problem with us. He gets on a plane and he goes to China. Does he think China's the Chinese economy's going to buy his stuff? China is entirely export driven economy. So what do you do? He came back and said, oh, we'll take their electric cars. I mean,

is this nuts? So as magma shut down the house floor, you then have magma Republican

stutes men or stuts men. 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. And but this is the way he negotiate. He's a tough negotiator. And he gets results. Including a threatening taken out an entire civilization. Well, and you know what? That was you know, one of the things that, you know, days as he said, they say debt to Israel, debt to America.

And I think we have to take them seriously, you know, and while they are a much smaller country,

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 he was it was simply the rhetoric to put them in a position of he means really, he means business. I mean, you can't even admit that threatening an entire civilization is bad. You have, you can't just say, no, we shouldn't be threatening to eliminate an entire

civilization. That's called a genocide. What are you, what is people doing? Then you have Jim Jordan saying, um, 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 there 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 something to be, and I said, I think this election is really

going to come down to a couple sentences. They'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 absolutely 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

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the mega 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. Do you have an idea of how we could solve the black mortal mortality crisis if we can't say black? As an Trump is trying to end division in this

country, not so. Sorry, not a victim. I know that during the last four years, that's what the

I did divide it. Well, it polarized people. No, no, no, no, we're not talking about a victim. We're talking about the outcome. We're talking about DEI. We're talking about health care. Yeah, disparities. So what we're asking is that if you attack DE and I, 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? Do 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 top earth. We are meeting that, I'll believe it. We are not. I can explain. Do you how we are? You have not done so so far. But also, I would say that we can improve health care for everybody at the same time as helping the people who are most likely to die. That's what DEI

will, first of all, DE and I make sure that we have black doctors or women doctors or that

DE. We're talking about the fact that we have a mortality rate that is not matched by any other country as, as what we would call developed as ours. Really quickly. And yes, yeah, what was

going on? What state regime media? Here's what Fox talked about in terms of foreclosures increasing

play this clip. According to realtor.com, home foreclosures jump 26% in the first three months of this year. The Evoclosure rates were highest in Indiana, South Carolina and Florida. Back on CNN, Harry Anton had this rough row moment. Let's play this clip. It's the group that helped put them in the White House in 2016. And then again, in 2024, the group that shifted tremendously from 2012 to 2016 and put them in the White House. We are talking about

non-college white voters. And he is sliding right into the water. This is a rough row moment to quote the great Scooby-Doo, Trump's net approval rating with non-college white. Look at this. In February of 2025, it was plus 32 points. Down it goes. Look at Johnny. Johnny is shot by this number. And now it is minus 2 points. That is a 34 point shift. And I will note this is an average of posts. This is not just one poll. I've average three different polls here. Three big pollsters.

And what we see is Donald Trump actually underwater with non-college white to of course put him in the White House. Really moment? Yes. Really John. 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 there. They're going to give up their, you know, any sort of 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 and 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 and United States is if he is making something up of that magnitude, that's extraordinary. I should be extraordinary. Oh god. That's just pure fantasy on his part. And look, this has been Trump.

He's always saying stuff that's completely untrue. And somehow people have decided that's okay,

it was never okay. 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. And all 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

more pushback against. And finally, you had state regime media, which calls itself Fox attacking

the Democratic Congresswoman, elect Mahia, 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 Mahia, she's against ICE. She accuses Israel of committing genocide and Gaza. She wants to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas in Samuel Alito. She believes in a $25 federal minimum wage.

She wants to cancel all student loan debt.

She wants universal child care. She's crazy. So just so you're all clear when Jim Jordan

and Trump and Bessant and Letnik and state regime media refer to Democrats as crazy.

The crazy policies that they claim are crazy. Just pull, pull, pull up the photo, guys.

Just so everything, they're saying these policies are crazy. When those policies are true,

accurate and things that most Americans agree with right now as they should play this

clip of state regime, let's play it. Because Mahia, like AOC and Bernie Sanders, believe that America at its core is evil and corrupt. And of course, she wants to abolish ICE. She wants

universal child care, universal health care, canceling all student debt, national minimum wage

up to $25 and peach Clarence Thomas in Samuel Alito. Now, this menu of destructive ideas is no longer considered though French and the Democrat party. It's gone totally mainstream. It is a deep hostility to our country, to our history, to the capitalist system. There you have a folks, magma, Mike shutting it down yet again, shutting down that's learning no vote. So ridiculous,

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