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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump's Budget and the House Recess

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on MAGA Mike Johnson shutting down the House for the rest of the summer as Trump's war becomes an even bigger failure and as MAGA Mike and the MAGA GOP are losing...

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Aldi, good for all. "Magamite Johnson is now shutting down the house of representatives for the rest of the summer. August recess is now beginning. "Magamite is spiking the football like he did the best job imaginable." He said, "It couldn't be done," they said.

They said that "Magamite was on the ropes. But the Magar Republicans deliver now that the house is being shut down, for they don't work." And they're shutting down for the rest of the summer.

"Magamite was spiking the football about everything that he accomplished.

What the hell did he commit? And in doing what are you talking about, you literally did nothing, what you stole more money from the American taxpayers to send to the military industrial complex. You took away money that should be going to healthcare and bringing down the cost of living, to buy more bombs and peed heggsets hands to kill little girls and Iran and to engage

in more war crimes, you psychotic war criminals. Here play this clip, "Magamite Johnson, here play this clip." The sample of the headlines, quote, "House Republicans face final week gauntlet." Another said, "Johnson's Rocky Sprint to recess." Another said, "It was Johnson's Maker break week."

Despite nearly every Democrat voted against everything I just read you, "House Republicans deliver."

Many of you like to say that major legislating can't happen in an election year.

We just proved you wrong this week, we continue to deliver for the people and we're going to continue that streak all the way through the end of this year and into the next Congress. We're increasingly confident that we will hold and grow this majority in the house. We must, because you're seeing a demonstration of the two sides, the divergent views for America.

We had been saying that this was an election that was shaping up as a contest between common sense and crazy. And now it is literally in many sectors around the country, common sense versus communism. I told you, there are real psycho regime, magamites like, and now we thought it would be us against crazy, but it's us against communism.

Dude, what are you talking about? You've destroyed the lives of tens of millions of Americans. So Donald Trump can piss on the walls of the White House and turn it fake gold. What are you talking about? By the way, the Midas Touch Network, as you know, our DC Bureau was on Capitol Hill.

We were trying to ask these magma Republicans questions before they all went on their vacation, but must be nice. You've got Mago Republican Congress member, King, from New Jersey, the guy who disappeared for like three or four months, right, no one knew where this guy was. Oh, well, he was stock trading during all of those months.

He's like Trump, Trump to 21,000 stock trades last year. This guy's like, they're all doing stock trades these magas. Here, play this clip.

β€œCongressman Cain, why did you trade stocks while you were missing votes for more than three months?”

That was fun, sir. Well, and then you had Mago Republican Congress member, Zach Nun, attacked the camera man right here, just struck a person asking a very simple question about rural hospital closures. Hey, Mago Nun, that's the guy's name, Mago Republican Nun. Why are you shutting down all of these hospitals to buy more bombs to blow up Iran?

What are you doing? And he's like, I'm with the constituent. Can't you see? I know you weren't. You're with a reporter from notice.

We all know who that guy is. It's not a constituent. You frickin' liar. Is there a reporter, probably leaking stuff? And he punches the camera, these magas are unhinged loonethere.

They're unhinged lunatics here play this clip.

β€œCongressman Nun, do you still think that rural hospital closures are a man's situation?”

Come on. Never sponsor. No, I said I'm with the constituent. You should protect their privacy. Careful.

Speaking of unhinged lunatics, did you see Donald Trump at that speech last night? You know, as Mago Mike and Congress is recessing, what the hell was that national corresponded standard thing? I don't even know what the hell it was. When Donald Trump was talking about the big race in Texas, James Toloreco against Ken

Paxton, Ken Paxton, the literal criminal, a crook, someone who like lets out sexual abusers, someone who's like engaged in like the most heinous personal conduct of

Mike, like Paxton, and Trump, and Epstein, and there's a reason they all hang...

Right?

You know, James Toloreco, like the nice normal guy, and he's a Toloreco, he hates sex.

He hates sex. He's not going to do well because he doesn't like sex. He's like sex. What are you even talking about? Watch what Trump said, play this clip.

Very well in Texas, the Democrats are running a candidate named James Toloreco, who hates guns, hates oil, hates sex, hates women, and he said he is, quote, a Christian, who hates

β€œChristianity, other than that, I think his platform is quite good.”

That means that he's not going to do very well against Ken Paxton, who hopefully in Texas is going to win, but Toloreco, he's out, you know what it looks like to me, Alfred Newman.

You remember Alfred Newman, Mad Magazine, and said that guy is Alfred Newman, can't

imagine he'd win. Well, I have all of the press here in one place. I have to say. And you can just take a look at Donald Trump the way he looked when he was sitting next to his chief propaganda's Caroline Levitt, oh, then before Trump went to the White House

correspondent's dinner, some members of the press who were in the oval office were able to get this video right here of Natalie Harp, that's Donald Trump's human printer and lots of people say she's Donald Trump's other things as well, but there she is in the White

β€œHouse, just like, he's like a zombie, he's like zombie humans, and you know, she's attached”

to Donald Trump at the hip.

Look, but while all of this is going on, there's real serious things happening to him.

I mean, there's serious that the president's demented psychotic human being, but he's getting our service members killed, he's destroying the lives and millions of Americans, all while he's doing his stupid YMCA dance, CNN spoke with the wife of U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Swinton, who is recently killed in action as a result of Donald Trump's catastrophic war, and this is one of the individuals, brave courageous service members killed in action,

Donald Trump deleted his name and deleted the fact that he was killed in action from the war, because Trump says we're not in a war, epic fearies over and we want it according to Donald Trump, and so you have Michael Swinton's wife. So while you have magma johnson shutting down Congress, refusing to hold Donald Trump accountable with a war powers resolution and actually asserting what article one's all about, you

have the power, it's your power, not Trump's to declare war, and what the hell is magma Mike doing, turning our Congress into the do, was something even more serviled in the Russian Duma, you have real people who are having their lives destroyed, listen to the wife of U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Swinton play this clip. Yeah, something happened this week that we don't really understand the full details here.

You may know more, the Pentagon, you know, removing Michael and the three soldiers who also died this past weekend from the public casualty count of soldiers and troops who have died during the war. Now, the Pentagon does say it's a glitch.

β€œHas anyone spoken to you about this or told you anything about it?”

Nobody has reached out yet, well, I kind of don't have words with that. Yeah, I can imagine. And the world's on fire right now, as a result of Trump's psychotic week pathetic behavior, he and Netanyahu invading Iran, you take a look at the black columns rising this morning from the city of Jizan and Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia attacked the Houthis in Yemen, Yemen

responded with vengeance. And they started striking hard in Saudi Arabia as they were and they were going to. You also have Iran striking hard in Bahrain, striking these Pactu Patriot Interceptor facilities attacking the fifth fleet of the United States. You'll see here in this video, I'll show you the B-roll, the Pactu Patriot Interceptors,

now functioning not working and Iran getting direct hits on U.S. air bases over there in Bahrain, meanwhile Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis control the Babel Mandob Strait, both are being choked out. They have Iran and the Houthis have control of the Strait of Hormuz and Babel Mandob respectively.

Well, Donald Trump and said, come on, like, everything's okay. Use the route and really when a ship goes and uses the route, they get blown up and they get blown up and so with all of that as background, great to know that Magma Mike saying, everybody gets to go home, it's August recess after, again, magas push forward a budget and took away our taxpayer dollars to fund this catastrophic in a lawful war.

I want to bring in right now, Democratic Congress member, Brendan Boyle, he's the ranking

Member of the House Budget Committee, let me bring in ranking member of the b...

Brendan Boyle, here's my interview with Brendan. Now I want to bring in Democratic Congress member, Brendan Boyle, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, Congress member Boyle, great to see it again this week.

β€œThere was a lot of budget talk and it was often very confusing and I think intentionally”

so by the sloppiness of the Magga Republicans, I think the big takeaway is that they want to take away trillions of dollars that could actually go to the American people and be used for things like healthcare and services that people rely on and help the cost of

living and move all of the money to wars and never ending wars that people don't want

to be involved in and for whatever the health and for bailouts because Donald Trump has utterly failed this economy and for Donald Trump's personal projects and putting Trump's name on everything. But it is I think purposely confusing to try to make things complicated so people don't know what the hell is going on.

But look, I think people get it when I just said people are living right now and so talk to us about this moment, Congress. Yeah, and also on top of that, let's face it. The language around the budget process is almost, you know, it's different, a different arcane language that no normal person can understand between reconciliation and CRs and then

you throw in the NDAA. So let me attempt to explain this in plain English. The big thing that happened this week is what Republicans are calling their reconciliation 3.0. The House Budget Committee approved last week despite my opposition and the opposition of every

Democrat and then on Wednesday, the full House representatives approved on a party line vote.

Their reconciliation plan, which is just under $100 billion.

β€œNow, considering most polls, in fact, I think every single poll shows, by far the number”

one issue on voters' mind is the affordability issue, frankly, life in America is just too expensive today. Some of the worst polling that we've seen since the great recession in terms of the views of the American people on the economy and specifically inflation. So it would only be natural and you would be wise to think that, of course, Republicans

in their reconciliation bill is going to have to do something to at least even pretend to speak to this issue. While you would be reasonable, you would be wrong to think that. Not one dime. Not one word of their over 6,500 page bill is about affordability or lowering costs.

Most of the $95 billion is going to defense an intelligence in order to fund Trump's reckless

Iran war. There's a little bit of money in there as well as an incentive to the states to do something on the save act. This is probably going to get kicked out by the Senate Parliamentarian because reconciliation if you recall is all of these funky rules over on the Senate side.

But be that as a mate, this is largely in the end of the day, a defense bill to fund the Iran war to the extent of almost $100 billion and not one penny of this will actually help the pocketbooks of the American people.

β€œYeah, that's why the American people know this stinks and that our money is being taken”

from us and given to a military industrial complex for wars that we don't want to be involved in from for that level. But this follows to me back when I was a litigator and I would follow and prosecute in a civil basis these Ponzi schemes. The idea of these businesses that would use this language that really wasn't accessible

and they would start off with a special purpose vehicle one and special purpose vehicle two and special purpose vehicle three and then they would use special purpose vehicle two to pay off some of the people from one who were getting a little worried and they would create three to pay off people from two if they were getting worried and then the insiders would take all of the money for themselves.

So then they would say, aha, look at all the money the investors are making though, don't worry, you're going to get it because we've made billions and billions of dollars. You just have to wait for it, don't worry, give us a few weeks, give us a year, you're going to get it. And so to me, we're at reconciliation for the repo.

When they told us the so-called big, beautiful bill was going to cover everything and it and everything we needed and more Donald Trump is out there saying, I got 19.2 trillion dollars right now and we've made everybody so rich with this number but we're going to get there, we're going to get there but we just have to get, just give me a little more time.

That's literally what you said in Georgia.

Give me a little more time.

We got to pass these reconcilations now and then the the factories will all happen because

β€œall this 19 trillion it's there, which is we got to wait for it.”

It just, it seems like an obvious Ponzi scheme. Yeah, I mean, we've talked before about the 18, 19 trillion figure that Trump just totally creates, which to give everyone an idea, the entire federal budget, everything that we spend on everything, whether it's the fence, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, roads, bridges, all of it combined, anyways, between six and seven trillion dollars.

So the idea that Donald Trump suddenly added 19 trillion dollars to two people's wallets is, is so absurd, but it's a typical Trump, you know, you say a lie that is big enough embold enough and repeat it and that way your followers will believe you. Donald Trump is the most, and I give him credit for this actually, give the devil as do.

He is the most successful con man in American history, but here's why I'm pretty optimistic and confident about the midterm elections this November as effective as a con man as Donald Trump has been throughout his life. He can't convince people, most people anyway, that their financial situation is any better than it actually is because they're the ones who are having to pay their own bills.

They're the ones who are pumping up the gas station and know they're now paying more than $4 a gallon when just five, six months ago, it was under $3 a gallon. Here are the ones who are seeing food prices jump 20%, 25%, there are the ones who see inflation back out of control after it was coming down month after month, every single month in 20, 24, inflation was coming down.

Donald Trump gets elected, it becomes president and january, and almost immediately inflation begins to jump back up first with Trump's tariff taxes, just essentially a national

β€œsales tax on almost every important good, and then he compounds it with the so-called”

big, beautiful bill in which he makes health care more expensive for almost every American in order to fund tax cuts for the rich, and then you fast forward to this year and you have Trump's reckless Iran war, which has driven the cost of gasoline and so many other costs through the roof, this is a failed economic president, it's a failed presidency in so many other ways, but it is especially glaring on the economy because that actually

is a real contrast in the minds of voters to Trump 1.0, Trump 1.0, he's approval rating

on the economy never fell below 53%.

Well, guess what, it is now in the low 30s, which is the lowest approval of any president on the economy since George W. Bush at the height of the great recession 20 years ago. You know, he's making things so much worse, I mean, we have the escalation of the war, things are getting really, really bad, and first and foremost, on our minds, our service members who are getting killed and injured as a result of this, it does have a massive

β€œfinancial impact to people here at home, and we're seeing that while that's going on,”

what has he done in this past week, which isn't getting nearly enough attention, well, first last week, he did 25% tariffs on Brazil in the dark of the night. This week, 50% tariffs on Canada granted there some exclusions, but it still is 50% on a lot. And then on Friday, he does so called section 301 tariffs on 60 countries saying that they're

involved in forced labor, including the European Union. So I need reported deal, you know, then the deal guy with the European Union, which is supposed to avoid this Trump goes, you know what? We just did an investigation, and in the European Union, you support forced labor. So now we're going to tariff you more than even the Supreme Court basically said we

couldn't be for, and then the Trump regime says, we here in the United States don't engage in any of those practices. And in your opinion, they're like, y'all, we have like living wages and people are living here. What do you even talk about?

Well, you buy from countries that have forced labor and it's like, you're offering nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia, and you're giving our semi-conductor chips to the UAE. You crazy? I just think people are seeing what's going on right now with all that.

Yeah, you know, specifically on Trump's tariff taxes, and I always make sure to call

them exactly what they are. Taxes. A tariff is a type of tax. It's a tax on a good that you get from abroad. This is something that I'm confident that once in power, Democrats will be able to reverse.

After all, the power to tariff, the power to tax is in Article 1 of the Constitution. It is an inherent power of Congress. Problem is we have a Republican majority right now who just bowels down to Donald Trump

Refuses to stand up to him, well, guess what?

We went back the house in November. We went in the Senate.

β€œWe will be able to kill these tariff taxes once and for all.”

But we will begin to bring down costs for the American people. It will begin to reverse the enormous damage that Trump has inflicted on the American people. So I have to say, you know, in the medium term, provided we win in November, I'm pretty confident that that's something that we're going to be able to do something about. Every good con man, I don't mean that in a plot way, in a negative way, you know, it

ultimately, at some point, time catches up, though, and people go, we promise me this.

Where is it, where is it? And it does feel like we're at that moment right now, where even the ardent, maga people are like, we stuck with you for a long time, and now you're out here, talking about communism,

β€œand all of this stuff, like, you know, maybe that works in 2024, maybe you get, you”

told us you were going to make our lives better. You want to talk about all this other stuff? Make our lives better first, let us have health care, let us do that. And then you want to talk about your dogs, and this is the old Jamaican, but you want to talk about dogs and cats and sports and all your crazy stuff that you want to lead us

down that path. It feels like the ardent maga supporters even like, you screw in our lives right now, and you're pretending that we're doing great, and we're not, I'll give you the final word. Yeah, I mean, I really laughed this past week when we were having a press conference, I say we on the Democratic side, I as ranking member was joined by the the chair and vice

chair of our Democratic caucus. We were having a press conference about affordability and the need to lower cost for the American people, and our plan to do that, the Republican press conference, the one that Republican leaders had that was right before us, was all about defeating communism. That is a great political slogan for 1956, but for here and now, by the way, I've

good news for my Republican leader friends, we defeated communism. The Republican walk came down in 1989, we won that one folks, what voters actually care about today is who is going to make their lives better, who is going to put more money

in their pocket, who is going to finally bring down costs, Democrats have a plan on this,

Republicans have only raised your costs and they aren't even attempting to lower them because they're talking about anything and everything except for the main issue affecting the lives of the American people. I mean, it's it's so obvious, and it's so, I mean, if it wasn't so damn serious and people weren't suffering, you would say that this is like a parody, you know, it's like people

like I'm suffering, I'm I need help, I need up, but the communists are doing it, it's like guys, Trump, you did this in 2024, we don't believe you right now, just stop it, stop it, Congressmen, thanks for everything, you know, we do look forward, what one day we can go from ranking member to chairman of that committee and hold real hearings and bring in rust vote

β€œand you know, and do the type of oversight and work that I think the American people really”

want to really want to see, and you can go through that balance sheet with vote and see where that nineteenth year was. Thank you, Congressmen. Thank you, I'm looking forward to being back when I'm chairman and holding those hearings and finally holding these people accountable. A great way to leave off this interview with hope at this juncture and talk.

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