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Trump just 'wants to throw fancy parties for the billionaire class' · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan Doyle joins me. Now he's also a
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  Speaker 1: ranking member on the House Budget Committee. Congressman, is it
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  Speaker 1: your understanding that this is a question of national security
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  Speaker 1: or fancy parties?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's absolutely absurd, and don't take my word for it.
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  Speaker 2: When President Trump initially announced this project, he said not
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  Speaker 2: one word about national security, not one word about his
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  Speaker 2: own personal security. It was all about having a big,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful ballroom because he just wants to be able to
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  Speaker 2: throw fancy parties for the billionaire class that he hangs
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  Speaker 2: out with at mar A Lago. Essentially it would be
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  Speaker 2: mar A Lago, one thousand miles north. Then after months
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  Speaker 2: go by, mind you, we have the attempted shooting at
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  Speaker 2: the White House, correspondence dinner at the Hilton. Suddenly he invents,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, this is a way I can justify
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom. So that's the first sett of lies. The second,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is the cost of taxpayers. For months and months,
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  Speaker 2: he was saying this would not cost one dime of
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer money. Then it came out it might be three
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  Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. Then it came out it might be
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  Speaker 2: four hundred million. Now the latest price tag nine hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars of taxpayer money. At a time in which
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  Speaker 2: we have an affordability crisis, he wants to spend almost
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  Speaker 2: a billion dollars of taxpayer money on his big, beautiful ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what I think is new in part here, Congressman,
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  Speaker 1: which is, this is not the first time the President
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  Speaker 1: has defied Congress. He's yet to receive approval for his
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  Speaker 1: war of choice with Iran. But to have the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General of the United States hitting the Sunday Circuit and saying,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, Congress already gave him the approval and the
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  Speaker 1: authority to build this ballroom. It shows such a blatant
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  Speaker 1: disregard and disdain for the coequal branches of government. And
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  Speaker 1: if they have that for everything from a war to
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  Speaker 1: a ballroom, where does it go next?
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  Speaker 2: Right? And that's actually the larger issue.
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  Speaker 3: As bad enough as it is to spend a billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars on this monstrosity and tearing down the entire East
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  Speaker 3: wing of the White House is part and parcel of
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  Speaker 3: the larger issue that this president and those minions who
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  Speaker 3: work for him, including now the Attorney General, they want
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  Speaker 3: to pretend that there aren't three branches of government.
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  Speaker 2: They want to pretend there's only one article of the Constitution,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the executive. Their O and B director has
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  Speaker 2: acted in exactly the same way, wanting to take away
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  Speaker 2: the power of the purse that Congress has always had
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  Speaker 2: since the very beginning. And that's the really dangerous aspect
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump and Trump two point zero, specifically over
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  Speaker 2: Trump one point zero, you've.
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  Speaker 1: Got a new pull from the Financial Times it finds
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  Speaker 1: most Americans feel worse off under Trump. That includes fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven percent of independent voters. All while you have the
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  Speaker 1: president focusing on the ballroom renovation is what does that
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  Speaker 1: tell you about his priorities, his life thereof? And from
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  Speaker 1: a messaging perspective, how do you begin to tie for
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  Speaker 1: the pain that people are feeling When you listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you're in distruct You hear it every day at
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store, at the pump. And the fact that
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  Speaker 1: instead of you know, focusing on policies that would address
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  Speaker 1: those challenges, the president has focused on his ballroom.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right, and you know you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: take your word for it, your mind, let's actually listen
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  Speaker 2: to what Donald Trump is outright said. He has said
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  Speaker 2: he does not think about the financial situation of the
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  Speaker 2: American people at all. He has also said, and I quote,
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  Speaker 2: I love the inflation. So he has made it very
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  Speaker 2: clear that he couldn't care less about these sort of
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  Speaker 2: hardships that the American people have right now. It is
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  Speaker 2: not surprising that, not just in the poll you cited,
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  Speaker 2: but in other polls, American's confidence about this economy and
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  Speaker 2: their future is at its lowest level since the autumn
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  Speaker 2: of two thousand and eight, that is, when the Great
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  Speaker 2: Recession was developing. The President has the lowest approval rating
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  Speaker 2: on the economy since any president of going back to
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  Speaker 2: George W. Bush in September October of two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: So you have a president who just doesn't care, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give a damn about the struggles of the ordinary American.
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  Speaker 1: I will you to gain something out for me, which
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  Speaker 1: is I'm sure you've seen that whenever anyone in this
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  Speaker 1: administration is pressed on the current state of the economy,
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  Speaker 1: they like to blame Joe Biden and act as though
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  Speaker 1: it is still President Biden's economy. Unfortunately for them, these
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  Speaker 1: are not President Biden's tariffs. This is not President Biden's
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  Speaker 1: war of choice with Iran. I would wager that if
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are to take back the House in November, you
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  Speaker 1: go into January all of a sudden instead of blaming
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  Speaker 1: things on Joe Biden, He's blaming things on all of you,
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  Speaker 1: and you're democratically controlled House. What are the policy priorities
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  Speaker 1: that begin to set this economy back on track that
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  Speaker 1: are truly controllable from inside the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first and foremost, Congress has to retake its
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  Speaker 2: constitutional authority as it relates to tariffs. That is the
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  Speaker 2: quickest way we could deliver a pretty meaningful tax cut
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  Speaker 2: for the American people. After all, a tariff is a
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  Speaker 2: tax on an imported good. We have seen estimates that
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  Speaker 2: between the tariff taxes and the absurd war that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump launched in Iran, those two have combined to increase
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  Speaker 2: costs for the American family of more than three thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars since Donald Trump took office. So delivering on tariff
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  Speaker 2: relief number one and canceling those number two, also reclaiming
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  Speaker 2: the power of Congress as it relates to war and peace,
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  Speaker 2: and attempting to cut off once and for all this
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  Speaker 2: stupid and reckless Iran war that has not only cost
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  Speaker 2: us lives but of course is costing Americans every day.
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  Speaker 1: At the pump, Congress and Brendan Boyle, I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you