PG119: Price Resigns, Puerto Rico, Senate Primary, Graham-Cassidy, New Travel Ban, Tax Reform

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jay start off this jam-packed episode with a look at the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in the wake of a travel scandal. Mike points out that Price joins an unusually large contingent of former Trump staffers for such a young administration, but both Mike and Jay agree that President Trump did the right thing in forcing Price's resignation. Next, it's a look at the federal government's response to the devestation caused by hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Once again, the Guys agree that the administration's efforts have been good, especially considering the unique challenges presented by Puerto Rico's location, as well as emergency response resources being stretched thin after hurricanes Harvey and Irma. That said, Jay thinks that the Trump team could use some remedial lessons in messaging. After that, the Guys talk about the Alabama Republican Senate primary race, where former judge, and ardent cultural conservative Roy Moore soundly defeated incumbent Luther Strange, despite President Trump's support of Strange. Following that is a discussion of the vote that wasn't on Graham-Cassidy, the latest (and last, for now) GOP attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, a look at the latest Trump travel ban, and Mike and Jay's analysis of the Republicans' tax reform framework. We hope you’ll check out the sponsors of today’s show: DaVinci. Book your space now at http://www.davincimeeting.com/TPG and the first hour is on them! ZipRecruiter. Politics Guys listeners can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE. Just go to http://www.ZipRecruiter.com/politicsguy. SeatGeek. Politics Guys listeners get $20 dollars off their first SeatGeek purchase. Download the SeatGeek app or go to http://www.seatgeek.com and enter promo code POLITICSGUY today. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to http://www.politicsguys.com and click on the Patreon link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics, guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:24.6	With I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University. With me today's my co-host, attorney and Republican strategist, Jay Carson.
0:29.3	We start today with the resignation of Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price,
0:33.8	in the wake of a travel scandal involving price spending hundreds of thousands of dollars
0:39.1	in government funds to charter flights as opposed to taking far less expensive commercial flights
0:44.2	as his predecessors at HHS did. Now this, along with what President Trump viewed as prices
0:49.9	ineffectiveness in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare led to the resignation.
0:55.7	And now we're at a point where just over eight months into the administration, we've seen the
1:00.5	departure of a national security advisor, a press secretary, two communications directors, a chief
1:06.5	strategist, an acting attorney general, an FBI director, and now an HHS secretary.
1:13.1	So, Jay, what do you make of this latest development?
1:17.2	What I've done is I've queued up, I think we should have this, this audio just always, always handy.
1:23.7	You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. Just kind of have that. Just so we, like, is an intro to, um, look, I think this is a, uh, uh, Trump doing the right
1:36.3	thing.
1:36.7	Uh, I think it's hard for anybody to argue that, um, this is a wrong thing to do.
1:42.3	I mean, I guess the, if you're a real partisan,
1:46.2	you could,
1:46.6	you know,
1:47.0	you can make the argument,
1:47.8	oh,
1:48.0	well,
1:48.2	other administration has done this too.
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