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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With the glaring exception of Mike Penn's prominent Republican leaders across the country |
| 0:04.1 | have pretty much all fallen in line behind Donald Trump. |
| 0:07.8 | He is the presumptive Republican nominee as far as the presidential race is concerned |
| 0:12.1 | the Republican Party is a pretty |
| 0:13.9 | united front. But when you look at the Republican Party beyond the scope of |
| 0:18.2 | just the cult of Trump, when you look at the part of the party that Donald |
| 0:22.0 | Trump would actually have to work with |
| 0:24.8 | to govern, unity is not the first word that comes to mind. |
| 0:29.8 | Today the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed its biggest legislative |
| 0:33.3 | accomplishment so far it voted to keep the lights on. |
| 0:38.6 | After kicking the can down the road for six whole months, Republicans in Congress finally funded the federal government with a |
| 0:43.9 | 1.2 trillion dollar spending bill and most of them didn't even vote to do that. |
| 0:50.2 | Despite having a majority in the House, only about a half of today's votes came from Republicans. |
| 0:57.0 | It was Democrats who actually brought this fundraising funding extension over the finish line. |
| 1:02.0 | And because Congress took so long to pass this thing, |
| 1:05.0 | it's only going to actually keep the government funded |
| 1:07.0 | through the end of September, |
| 1:09.0 | which means we have six months, |
| 1:10.0 | and then we're right back into this totally unnecessary mess again. |
| 1:14.0 | And I'm not kidding when I say that this is the bare minimum. |
| 1:19.0 | This vote to just fund the government to keep it open, to keep the lights on. I'm not |
| 1:24.7 | kidding when I say it's the biggest thing the Republican controlled house has |
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