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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas speaks with Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss about Republicans screwing themselves and screwing the country at the same time. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.8

what may be the most devastating budget in the history of the United States of America. We're talking about

1:09.3

$880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. We're

1:14.4

talking about adding $19 trillion to the deficit over the course of 10 years. We're talking about

1:21.2

gutting infrastructure. We're talking about gutting important resources to farmers. And so what are they doing, though?

1:30.0

I mean, they are just outrageously glazing Elon Musk and Doge in like the weirdest way

1:37.0

possible. I mean, you got this Mago Republican Senator Roger Marshall out there saying,

1:42.6

go, Elon, go, go here here watch whatever the hell this is play

1:46.1

if I was Elon I'm asking him to double down not go slower double down and we're

1:51.7

going to correct the pieces as we go along as well think about what Elon did with Twitter he

1:55.2

fired 80% of the people when he took over Twitter he changed the name of it and it's still

2:00.2

and now today it's

2:01.1

worth twice as much as it was before. Yeah, it's not worth twice as much. It's, I think,

2:06.3

worth a fraction of it. He ran it into the ground, essentially. Then you've got a Mago Republican

2:12.2

Congress member Andy Barr on the Medicaid cuts. They're like, yeah, we need these Medicaid cuts. People are lazy.

2:19.1

You know, lazy people. You don't deserve your Medicaid. This is what the MAGA Republicans are going with.

2:23.6

Play this clip. Coming up with the offsets. So when you look at mandatory spending, and this is the point that I've been making recently, is some of this quote unquote mandatory spending, not mandatory at all.

2:35.3

No, look, I mean, Medicaid is a big mandatory spending program.

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