I know you've also been reporting on how Democrats are preparing for total Republican control

here in Washington.

What are they telling you?

Right.

This is an important moment for them to figure out their strategy as well.

And you know, there are just a handful of weeks before that change.

Democrats themselves have been at odds over their future direction during the new Trump era.

But today speaks to the extraordinary circumstance Democrats are in.

House Republicans unable to pass legislation on their own.

I talked about all of that a short time ago with freshman Congressman Greg Kassar.

He's a 35-year-old from Austin, Texas and was just elected the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

He'll be the youngest person ever to lead that group come January.

Thank you so much for joining me, Congressman Kasar.

I want to start with where we are today.

It seems as though the proposed continuing resolution may be falling apart.

What do you think this means right now?

I think we're beginning to see the chaos and billionaire corruption of the Trump era. I mean, Trump tried to campaign talking about how he was going to help working people and deal with corruption.

And I knew that pretty immediately he was going to betray his own message

and his own voters. So essentially for folks who haven't heard, Republicans and Democrats

were negotiating to come together to keep essential government services open here at the end of the

year. And then suddenly, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world,

full of many of the worst ideas in the world, basically ordered House Republicans to shut it down.

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