Speaker 1: Let me be clear about something. Numbers don't lie, and
today's numbers, well, let's just say that they're pretty horrible
for the Trump administration. The unemployment rate right now is
at four point six percent this month, and I wanted
you to show I want to show you a graph
from the New York Times showing the monthly change in jobs.
This is what it shows. Starting out, Look at where
we are, all the way at the bottom. Welcome back
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and share, because this level of stupidity, it has to
come to an end. While all the data shows that
Trump's economy is actually tanking, healthcare is another major topic,
especially as in two weeks two weeks from now, tens
of millions of Americans are going to be affected by
rising insurance premiums. And last week Democrats, well, they tried
to extend the ACA subsidies, but unfortunately that try failed.
This is what haking Jeffrey's published about a new discharge petition.
In it, he writes, there are two hundred and fourteen
Democrats who have signed a discharge petition that would force
an up or down vote on extending the Affordable Care
Act tax credits to make sure that tens of millions
of Americans do not experience increased health insurance premiums that
will prevent them from being able to go see a
doctor when they need one. All we need are four
House Republicans to join. There are two hundred and twenty
of them. All we need are four, and we can
extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits in a straightforward fashion,
in a manner that we know also has a bipartisan
majority in the United States Senate, as was just demonstrated
last week. Let me be crystal clear here, I am
not a fan of Hakeem Jeffries. While I absolutely agree
with the statement that he posted. Got a better idea
for him. What if instead of writing it to turn
around to try to play some political game out of this,
regardless of the fact that millions and millions, like twenty
two million Americans are going to be affected by this,
why don't you instead go reach out to four Republicans,
four moderate Republicans, and see if you can't get them
to sign on to the discharge petition instead of announcing
it for publicity purpose. You see, that's the problem. It's
not supposed to be about social media platforms. It's not
supposed to be about trying to get what you need
by going through the court of public opinion. Have to
go back to the old ways. Which is your call up? Yeah, hey, Joe, listen,
we really got to talk about these ACA subsidies. It's
not good for your people. Let me just show you
a couple of statistics. Can I have about a half
hour of your time and see if you can't negotiate
something right with a moderate Republican. Maybe that would work better.
Jake Sherman, he summed up the situation nicely on X
Let me show you what he said in it. He writes,
Jeffries is cognizant of where the game is moving. House
Republican leadership is blocking the mod's amendment. Mods will need
a place to go. Four Republicans voted in the Senate
for the three year. Maybe the three year is appealing
for the mods. Let me be crystal clear, like I
said a second ago. I totally agree with the sentiment
they need four, But you think maybe there's a smarter,
a more diplomatic way to hand. I think so. Meanwhile,
today on Fox, a host asked Representative Buddy Carter about
the gopi's healthcare plan. Let me show you what this
guy had to say. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: I think it it's really important that we just take
a step back and understand what's going on because, for
the first time in twenty years, healthcare is the number
one financial concern of Americans. The Affordable Care Act has
never been more popular than it is today, and so
there is how is.
Speaker 3: It more popular? How has it never been more popular
and expensive?
Speaker 2: When you look at when you look at polling, it
is fascinating. More than sixty percent of Americans say that
it's a positive thing, and they don't know what the
Republican alternative is, and so they're very concerned. When you
ask who is going to be better for the economy
or better for healthcare, Democrats win in polling and Republicans
are losing on this messaging. So my question really is, Congressman,
how do you talk to Americans right now who are
saying the Republicans don't have a plan. The Democrats plan
is better, and they're the ones that are going to
get under control. How do you explain what your plan
is that's better than what's in place today.
Speaker 4: You explain it by explaining that it's not working when
the government has to subsidize a program that means it's
not working. Right now, the insurance companies, they are the
only ones who are winning in this debate and in Obamacare,
the Unaffordable Care Act is right with waste, fraud and abuse.
Speaker 3: The GAO, they.
Speaker 4: Entered fake applicants in there, one hundred percent of them
were accepted, ninety percent of them. We're still on the
next year. And it's just right with waste, fraud and abuse.
We see we're fifty eight thousand dead people we're getting subsidies,
and then seven thousand of them before they even went
on the plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great history, so Ripe.
Speaker 1: Look, there's definitely fraud for fraud, waste and abuse. There's
no doubt about that. This fraud, waste and abuse in
everything you think there's not waste and abuse in the
military and the Department of War's budget of a trillion
dollars you think that there's not fraud, waste, and abuse
in every single there is. In fact, Donald Trump pardoned
a whole bunch of them, including one guy who had
defrauded Medicare for over a billion dollars. He recently pardoned
him as well. He's a buddy, he belongs to Maro
a Lago. You know how many doctors are doing it.
You know how many doctors who are members at Maro
a Lago who actually behave this way where they're defrauding
the insurance simply like the Medicare Medicaid, which we're paying for.
So before you want to start Maria Bartaroma and talk
about it. Yeah, you know you have your health coverage
through Fox. Fantastic for you. But there's twenty two plus
million Americans young, you write, children, middle aged, aged, those
with handicaps who are going to end up losing their
health coverage because of your stupidity, because your refusal to
acknowledge that. Okay, the AC eight it's not perfect. I
grant you that, but come up with a plan to
replace it before you turn around. You want to shit
on the other it's not logical. Now On Friday, Maga,
Mike Johnson, he was asked about his healthcare plan. Play
the clip.
Speaker 5: I've spoken to all my colleagues, man, have all worked
around the clock the credit. Come up with a solution
then that satisfies the needs of all of our constitutions.
Speaker 1: But we give you what we get.
Speaker 5: We're working on a panic legislation that will reduced premiums
for all Americans, not your seven percent of them. And
and I've been talking to every one of these colleges
and the tough districts about that. So stay tuned. There's
more to come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more to come. It's always more to come. You know.
It's very simple. You have the Affordable Care Act. It's
right here in your face. And there are millions, more
than twenty two twenty five thirty million Americans that are
actually using the ACA as a means of having health
coverage all right, which, by the way, should be a
as an American. Putting that aside, what Mega Mike is
saying is we're going to replace it with something. Well,
what is that something? That's the question that everybody should
be asking now. Johnson also claimed that Democrats broke America's
healthcare system. The ACA, by the way, as said on
that earlier clip, it's widely supported. More than sixty percent
of Americans are actually in favor of it.
Speaker 6: Play the clip, and mister speaker, thank you so much
for joining us on this busy, busy Friday. Take us
inside this meeting. I know there's a lot of grousing
on both sides here.
Speaker 1: How close are.
Speaker 6: Republicans to some type of agreement on this quote fix.
Speaker 5: We're very close, and we're delighted to present this and
put it through the House next week. Here's the important thing.
You said it very well, Laura. The Democrats broke America's
healthcare system fifteen years ago when they came out with
that Bombacare proposal, the Unaffordable Care Act. It did exactly
the opposite of every single thing they promised. Premiums have
skyrocketed in some categories up to seventy or ninety percent
in the last fifteen years. They will continue to skyrocket.
So the Democrats proposal right now is subsidize it further.
They want to. They want the American tax payer to
give billions of dollars to insurance companies in a program
that is just riddled with fraud, waste abuse. We're not
going to do that. Republicans are bringing common sense solutions.
We are bringing solutions forward that will actually lower the
premiums for all Americans. It's long overdue, and we've got
some great ideas to do it.
Speaker 1: And what are they? Right? It's great to talk about something,
but what are they meanwhile? Representative Steve Scalise, he went
on Fox this morning literally rambling, rambling about healthcare and
car insurance marketplaces. Play the clip.
Speaker 7: Just take this down to the very base case. I'm
a family five. I'm a family five. Tell me and
say I want to get on this program. How's it
going to work? Tell me what the program is that
I'm currently on, and what you think the new program
looks like? What's my deductibility look like? What do my
premiums look like? Just this walk us sort of a
basic American who's thinking about what to do here, how
it's going to impact them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it seems like all the attention has been focused
on Obamacare, which you know is a lot of people,
but it's a small percentage of Americans. But eighty percent
premium increases just for people in Obamacare. We want to
help lower their premiums, but right now nobody has options.
It's really not a competitive marketplace. So if you don't
like the plan that you have, it's really hard to
shop it around, like for example, car insurance, your homeowner's insurance.
I mean you turn on the TV, they're commercials with
lizards and all kinds of other animals that are selling
you options to get lower insurance. You don't really have
that in health insurance. So we want to open up
the marketplace because right now, if you don't have any choices,
you're going to pay more. So we're going to get
people any options to buy different kinds of plans that
are better for them, lower costs, a better coverage for
their families, lower deductibles for their families.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, how stupid is Steve Scalise? You know,
Jared Kushner's brother Josh, is a partner in a firm
that owns actually a site that does exactly that. You
put in your information what you're looking for. It'll give
you ten fifteen different options for health coverage with different
plans from different companies. I mean those Believe me, those websites,
they exist. They exist in healthcare, they exist in auto policies,
in homeowners' policies, they exist even for life insurance. Now, look,
like I mentioned at the beginning, the economy just a
completely different topic that is killing this MAGA base. Destant. Well,
he's still out there claiming that we will get an
economic boost next quarter. Play the clip here.
Speaker 3: You've talked about this additional from the tax code that
we're getting. You talked about the impact of the big
beautiful bell. It sounds like you think we're going to
get a real economic boost for the macro story in
the first or second quarter. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think it's gonna they start lifting off in
the first quarter and the second quarter.
Speaker 1: They just keep talking to the same group meanwhile, smiling
Bob Kevin Hassett, Well, he was asked about Trump's claims
that he wants twenty five percent GDP growth an impossibility,
As my grandfather would say, it's nice to want play
the clip.
Speaker 9: The Commerce Secretary's been on with us lately suggesting maybe
six percent GDP in twenty six The President the other
day in a meeting said, why can't there be twenty
percent or twenty five percent GDP growth? What is the
street supposed to do with that kind of number, you.
Speaker 7: Know, as an abstract thought, I don't know what the
highest growth ever is, but I doubt it to twenty percent.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is that.
Speaker 7: If you go bottom up and you say what's productivity.
Speaker 1: Growth right now?
Speaker 7: I think because of AI it's maybe two and a
half to three percent.
Speaker 1: What's capital stock growth? Right Yeah, again, it's just a
ridiculous comment. Finally, Senator David McCormick, he went on Fox,
which is where they all go, the only place that
you can spew these lives this bullshit, goes on Fox
and says that jd Vance's number one economic message to
Pennsylvanians should be that Joe Biden's economy was a disaster.
Play the clip.
Speaker 10: So the Vice President's going to Pennsylvania, going to be
speaking at the U Line warehouse in Allentown. And this
is very important. Your state's very important, a purple state.
So the President was there in Pennsylvania about a week
ago on the ninth of December. How does the message
there in Pennsylvania, How will that affect the rest of
the country because everyone's going to be listening, everyone's concerned
about the cost of living.
Speaker 11: Well, Unfortunately, I won't be able to join the the
VP because of some votes we have today, but I
wasn't with the President last week, and I think the
message is really clear. Message number one, the Biden economy
was a disaster. Inflation was twenty two percent over four years.
Wages didn't keep up to put enormous pressure on working families.
Point number two, the first year of the Trump administration
has made it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is no point number two. Point number one
is wrong. Therefore point number two doesn't exist. By the way,
the economy right now to cost the affordability to average Americans,
not this one percenters that are literally surrounding Trump and
coming to Americans is out of control and that's why
their numbers are tanking and Democrats are finally moving up.
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