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The Michael Steele Podcast

What Are Democrats Doing? (with Rep. Stacey Plaskett)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett joins Michael Steele on the podcast. She describes the frustration of hearing people say that Democrats aren't doing anything, despite their efforts in the House and the Senate. Rep. Plaskett also discusses not being allowed to vote for Speaker as a representative for the Virgin Islands, how Medicaid cuts would hurt Americans, Senator Joni Ernst's bizarre comments about people dying and David Hogg's disruption of the DNC.

Join Michael Steele, Molly Jong-Fast, Elie Mystal, Lucy Caldwell, John Fugelsang and Karen Hunter for Part II of our barbershop livestream on Tuesday, June 10th at 10am ET on The Bulwark's YouTube page. 

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0:00.0

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0:23.0

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0:28.6

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0:41.2

What drives me crazy on your show and on others is this circular hands in the air screaming, the aren't doing anything sends me what are they doing what are we doing do you think that we had an 18 hour hearing and ways and means

0:49.3

on that budget or a 23 hour one in energy and commerce because the Republicans wanted it.

0:55.3

The Republicans have continual votes on shit that they didn't want to include in there.

1:00.1

And so we now have them on the record on saying that they don't want to give any cuts.

1:05.1

And how many Americans know that?

1:07.4

And Americans will know that as we're going into the midterm. For us going around now,

1:13.8

just bashing each other that we're not doing anything, when all of you know, Democrats don't have

1:19.8

no damn power in the House to be able to do anything. The fact that Hakeem Jeffries kept

1:25.9

every Democrat to vote against the CR means that

1:30.6

he is a leader. And for people to go around and say, oh, he's not leading, they're full of shit.

1:36.2

No, I agree with that. You know, I know, I know people on your network, even on your show,

1:42.0

who have said that. Well, okay. I can't, again.

1:45.2

I haven't heard you say that, but I hear about your photos.

1:48.4

I always speak for Michael Steele.

1:49.8

I don't speak for anybody else.

1:59.6

So I'm joined today by a good friend, the Honorable Stacey E Plaskett, who is the congresswoman for the United States Virgin Islands, and serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as the Ways and Means and Budget Committees in our United States Congress.

2:15.6

In 2021, she was appointed as an impeachment manager

2:19.3

in President Trump's second impeachment trial.

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