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GOP Rep. Schweikert says Musk's political influence in Washington is 'wonderful'

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The back-and-forth on the stopgap spending bill has created fault lines among House Republicans. Many were unsatisfied with the original text, but some also rejected the revised bill, which included President-elect Trump's demands to suspend the debt limit. One of those members is Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona. He joined Geoff Bennett to discuss more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

All right, for more insight, let's bring in Congressman David Schweiker of Arizona, who joins

0:05.0

this now. Congressman, thanks so much for being with us.

0:07.0

Jeff, thank you for having. And Lisa is truly one of the very best here.

0:12.0

I'd have to agree with you on that. Thanks for making note of it.

0:15.0

So, Huffles understand, you oppose the first two funding bills, but you voted in support of the funding bill tonight. Why?

0:22.8

The debt ceiling was removed from it. For those who I will hopefully be chairing the Joint

0:29.0

Economic Committee, but I'm also in ways and means, the opportunity to now step in and say,

0:34.3

here's the modernizations, here's some of the spending reductions, those things.

0:38.3

I now have a path to move those things forward.

0:41.4

And let's be honest, the previous setup on the vote had all sorts of things that I believe

0:46.5

were Christmas treeed in and then functionally a substantial increase in the debt ceiling

0:52.9

with actually no understanding of that that's

0:55.6

a stressor around here. And we almost only do our work when there's a stressor.

1:01.8

The version of the bill that failed last night, the bill that had the debt ceiling increase

1:05.8

that Donald Trump supported, 38 Republicans voted against it. You were one of them.

1:10.2

What should we, what should

1:12.0

we take away from that? I mean, does it show the limits of Mr. Trump's influence and power

1:17.4

among the House GOP? Yeah, Jeff, I would actually take you a slightly different direction.

1:22.9

In some ways, it was less about President Trump or even Mr. Musk.

1:28.5

It's the fact of the matter of we now live in a time where so far this fiscal year,

1:32.7

so what we're 70 days into this fiscal year, we're borrowing over $100,000 every second.

1:38.7

It's demographics.

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