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The MeidasTouch Podcast

MAGA Mike Shuts Down House as Trump's Bill Blows Up!!!

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

News, Politics

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson shutting down the House of Representatives as Trump’s top bill is destroyed by the Senate and Meiselas shows what the Republicans are doing with the House closed. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 82-MEDICARE (826-334-2273) to speak with our trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/mtn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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dot UK slash podcast to learn more. Accordingly, the House stands adjourned until noon on Tuesday.

0:27.6

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0:33.1

Magamike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, shut down Congress. Once again, you heard it

0:39.7

right there. The next time Congress gets back into session, tomorrow, they just don't do any work

0:47.0

under Maga Mike Johnson. Now, Maga Mike was panicking because the Senate parliamentarian

0:53.8

knocked out the $1 billion in funding that the House

0:58.7

was going to give in the reconciliation bill for Donald Trump's golden ballroom.

1:04.1

So Maga Mike shut down the House of Representatives in order to regroup and figure out how

1:10.5

to loot and pillage a billion dollars

1:13.5

from American taxpayers to now pay for the Golden Ballroom. And so because this was a

1:19.5

reconciliation bill, the MAGAs were trying to do an end run around the 60-vote-culture

1:27.2

requirement in the United States Senate.

1:30.2

Otherwise, it would be subject to a filibuster because they really wanted to get Donald Trump

1:35.0

that $1 billion for his golden ballroom.

1:38.4

But you see the Senate parliamentarian.

1:41.4

It's this little known position but has a lot of power when the Senate tries to pass things through reconciliation with the House versus needing the kind of 60 vote marker in order to avoid a filibuster.

1:54.6

But the Senate parliamentarian made a ruling that this reconciliation bill cannot have the Golden ballroom $1 billion of funding in it.

2:05.6

Here's how it was announced. Senate parliamentarian just knocked out the provision and the Republican

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