The name of the game for Republicans on Capitol Hill is distraction, distraction, distraction from

their disastrous budget bill. Anything to take the heat off the fact that I think the approval

for this budget bill, the last Quinnipiac and AP poll I saw, it's like 27% approval. I think the nation recognizes how harmful this is for everybody other than the billionaires

and potentially owners of gun silencers.

So let me just show you what the MAGA Republicans tried to do in the House and why it has

backfired because I think it's just made them look extra deranged

and it's so obvious what they're doing. So you've got Mike Lawler who tries to present himself

in his New York congressional district in Rockland County like he's a moderate when he's anything.

And you know, all these MAGA Republicans, they called this hearing at the end of last week,

where they were bringing in the Democratic governors just to try to attack them, get their soundbites,

go after the governors. And I just loved it when the New York governor, Kathy Hokel, called out

Mike Lawler, who's a congress member in New York, and she's like, we all know what

you're trying to do here. I mean, you're just trying to distract from your budget bill. Here,

watch this clip. State, that's why you're here. That is the exact reason why you're sitting

in front of us testifying because of your disastrous EOs, your disastrous pro-criminal policies

that have resulted in the death of

New Yorkers. That is your failure.

And the fact is that you can't even answer

the question. No, the reason I'm sitting here

is because Republicans will look for no.

To deflect from a big, bad, ugly

bill that's going to hurt people. Governor,

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