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The Michael Steele Podcast

Marjorie Taylor Greene Heading DOGE? "It Ain't Serious, Folks" (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with Michael Steele about reaching bipartisanship and the unseriousness of Marjorie Taylor Greene leading the DOGE subcommittee.

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0:00.0

One of the things that I would think tactically you may want to consider,

0:03.2

Democrats generally may want to consider, is I can tell you right now what's going to happen,

0:09.0

sir.

0:09.8

You're going to have this economy continue to do what it's doing, and it's been good for a lot of people.

0:16.3

And it finally sort of settles in across the swaths of America that still believe that gas and

0:22.2

egg prices are too high and they realize, oh, they're not as high as they were. Donald Trump is

0:28.1

going to claim credit for that. By virtue of just being elected, by virtue of being inaugurated,

0:33.5

by virtue of sitting at 1,000 Pins of A Avenue, the whole world now is 10 times better than it was under Biden.

0:41.1

Part of that strategy has got to include not just what you just said, but relating it back to foundationally saying,

0:49.7

this is why we passed the infrastructure bill.

0:53.9

This is why we passed the Chips Act. This is why with

0:57.5

Republicans that Donald Trump told not to vote for those things, we did. Republicans who voted

1:05.0

against it showed up at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new road construction in your community. And I think that

1:12.9

begins to challenge the notion of the narrative that's going to be coming from the right that says

1:18.8

all things sunshiny and perfect, we did, and all the crap on your shoes, the Democrats put

1:25.7

there for you to step it.

1:32.1

You're absolutely correct that my Republican colleagues are going to take credit for everything that President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats in the House and Senate were able to

1:37.1

effectively do for the American people from infrastructure to the Chipson Science Act

1:42.7

to capping the price of out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs

1:48.3

as it relates to tens of millions of Medicare recipients at $2,000 per year,

1:54.4

which will be life-changing for so many people,

1:56.8

and that will take effect on January 1st of next year,

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