This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

And on the line with us is the Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressman

Rogana.

He represents the 17th District of California, the Silicon Valley area in the U.S. House of

Representatives.

His website is KhanakHANNA.house.gov.

His Twitter handle is rep as in Representative Ro, his first name, RO KhanakHANNA.

Repro Khanak on Twitter.

And Congressman Khanak, welcome back to the program.

It's great having you with us.

I'm wondering what's on your mind as you're looking out at the electoral, economic, political,

environmental, and everything else landscape here.

We're trying very, very hard.

The speaker is, you know, we were very close.

We had a conference call, literally I can't hear this with folks, but we had a conference

call that speaker was saying the deal was coming together.

And literally while we were on that conference call, the president tweets out saying the

deal is off.

And the irony is that the people who are blocking the president is McConnell and the ideologues

and the Senate because they just don't believe in government spending when it comes to

social services.

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