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story. So in the wake of Marjorie Taylor Green's resignation, there's been a discussion

about Congress in particular, and Republicans who are in Congress. What do they do all day?

Do they even really want to stay there? There's been a spate, actually, of a number of people

in Congress who are resigning. What was his name? Jared Golden, is that his name? In Maine who said he would resign. He had Marjorie Taylor Green, who said, or he said he wouldn't run for reelection. Marjorie Taylor Green said she's going to resign. But people broadly are just fed up with the institution, and they feel like they waste their time and they don't do anything. Let's put this up here on the screen from Jake Sherman. He's one of these Inside the Beltway reporters who really, you know, he speaks

to everybody and reports some of the inside gossip. So here's what he says. A few other GOP members

have messaged us over the weekend saying they too are considering retiring in the middle of the term.

Here is one exercise senior House

Republican. This entire White House team has treated all members like garbage, all, and Mike Johnson

has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all. Appropriators,

authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team

is off-putting to members who run roughshod and threatened. They don't even allow little wins

like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies, not even the high-profile,

the regular rank-and-file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going

into the minority after the midterms.

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