Assistant Leader Joe Neguse: GOP threat to shutdown government a ‘political charade’

>>> THE FACT THAT HOUSE >>> THE FACT THAT HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE THREATENING A SHUT DOWN AND DEMANDING IN EXCHANGE FOR KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT OPEN, THE ENACTMENT OF DEEPLY DANGEROUS AND UNPOPULAR PARTS OF TRUMP'S PROJECT 2025 AGENDA, IS UNSERIOUS AND UNACCEPTABLE. >> THE UNSERIOUS AND UNACCEPTABLE PROVISION IS ABOUT VOTER I.D. TO PREVENT NONCITIZEN VOTING. WHICH IS NOT A THING. THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ALREADY SAID IT WILL VETO SUCH A BILL. SAYING THE REPUBLICAN PROVISION WILL MAKE IT MUCH HARDER FOR ALL ELIGIBLE AMERICANS TO BE ABLE TO VOTE. THIS LEGISLATION IS UNNECESSARY. IT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL FOR NONCITIZENS TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. IT IS A FEDERAL CRIME PUNISHABLE BY PRISON AND FINES. THIS BEHAVIOR IS WRONG AND THE LAW CLEARLY PROHIBITS IT. STATES ALREADY HAVE EFFECTIVE SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO VERIFY VOTERS ELIGIBLE AND MAINTAIN VOTER ROLLS, END QUOTE. LET'S BE CLEAR, DONALD TRUMP LOST THE 2020 ELECTION BECAUSE 7 MILLION MORE PEOPLE VOTED FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. AND ENOUGH OF THOSE PEOPLE LIVED IN BATTLEGROUND STATES. IT WASN'T A CLOSE ELECTION. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF MADE UP VOTER FRAUD IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF NONCITIZENS VOTING IN ELECTION. BUT THE VITRIAL MISINFORMATION HAS BEEN MEMED INTO REALITY. ONLY ONE SWING STATE WISCONSIN HAS A MAJORITY OF VOTERS WHO SAY THEY ARE VERY CONFIDENT ABOUT THE ACCURACY OF THEIR STATES VOTING PROCESS. THE CONSTANT REPETITION OF REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND UNNECESSARY RECOUNTS BY FOLKS LIKE THE CYBER NINJAS HAS SUCCEEDED IN SEWING DOUBT IN VOTERS MIND. THE ELECTION WAS IN FACT, THE MOST SECURE AND SAFEST ELECTION IN MODERN HISTORY. NOW, HERE'S THE OTHER PROBLEM. THERE ARE ONLY NINE LEGISLATIVE DAYS LEFT ON THE CALENDAR BEFORE A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN. BUT REPUBLICANS ARE WILLING TO SHUT DOWN FEDERAL SERVICES AND DESTABILIZE THE COUNTRY IN PURSUIT OF A ZENOPHOBIC AND RACIST AGENDA ALL SO THAT DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T HAVE TO FACE THAT HE'S A LOSER AND MAY FACE THAT HE'S A LOSER AND MAY BE A LOSER YET AGAIN IN NOVEMBER. NOVEMBER. JOINING US NOW JONAH GOOSE. DO WE TALK ABOUT. >> I GUESS I WOULD FIRST JUST SAY, WITH RESPECT TO THE FORMER AS YOU SAID, IT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IT IS A CRIME OF COURSE FOR NONCITIZENS TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. AND FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT AND FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT YOU'VE STATED AND OF COURSE THE REASONS THAT LEADER JEFFREYS SO ELOQUENTLY STATED, THEY HAVE TAKEN HOSTAGE TO PURSUE AN EXTREMELY PARTISAN CONTINUED RESOLUTION THAT ULTIMATELY WOULD HARM NOT JUST OF COURSE OUR NATION'S VETERANS AND VETERANS HEALTH CARE, A WIDE VARIETY OF CRITICALLY IMPORTANT VARIETY OF CRITICALLY IMPORTANT PROGRAMS BUT AS YOU SAID, ALSO SEEKS TO IMPLEMENT TRUMP'S 2025 INSPIRED IDEA TO THIS PROVISION YOU'VE DESCRIBED. I THINK THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF IT. THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOUSE REPUBLICANS WORK IN GOOD FAITH WITH HOUSE DEMOCRATS ON A BIPARTISAN PATH FORWARD THAT FUNDS THE GOVERNMENT WHICH WE HAVE CERTAINLY TRIED TO DO. TIME AND TIME AGAIN. BUT AS YOU KNOW, HOUSE REPUBLICANS CURRENCY THIS CONGRESS HAS BEEN CHAOS AND DYSFUNCTION AND THIS PARTICULAR CONTINUED RESOLUTION AND THE BILL YOU MENTIONED IS OF COURSE CONSISTENT WITH THAT APPROACH. CONSISTENT WITH THAT APPROACH. >> IN THIS WEIRD SERVICE OF DON DONALD TRUMP. IT'S AN ISSUE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. THERE WAS A BILL. A BILL THAT MANY PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE. LIKE. BUT PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER TO CREATE A BILL AND DONALD TRUMP KILLED THAT BILL. GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWNS USED TO BE RARE. AND THEY HAPPENED BECAUSE SOMETHING WAS HOLDING THEM UP. THIS IS A NONSENSICAL BILL THAT DOESN'T NEED TO PASS. >> I AGREE ON BOTH FRONTS, ALI. IN RESPECT TO YOUR FIRST POINT THAT THE DANGEROUS AND OFFENSIVE RHETORIC THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN. I AGREE, LARGELY AWAY FROM WHAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHICH IS THAT ULTIMATELY AT HIS BEHEST REPUBLICANS KILLED A BIPARTISAN BORDER SECURITY BILL THAT WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED AND THAT WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED AND EMIT RATED MANY OF THE CHALLENGES ON THE U.S. BORDER. HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE MADE SHUT DOWNS A PART OF THEIR, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF IT. IT'S ONE OF THE REASON THAT THE MESSAGE OF VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IS RESINATES SO DEEPLY WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. BUT IT'S TIME FOR THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO GET SERIOUS AND THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH US TO GET RESOLUTION FUNDED. >> I DON'T MEAN TO DEBASE THIS CONVERSATION BY BRINGING UP THIS OTHER NONSENSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. BUT YOU WERE A CHILD OF IMMIGRANT, I AM AN IMMIGRANT TO THIS COUNTRY. IT WAS OUTSTANDING TO WATCH A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WHERE ONE OF THE CANDIDATES WAS DISCUSSING PEOPLE EATING PETS. BUT IT IS ACTUALLY RACIST. IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS. IT'S NOT AS MIKE DEWINE SAYS FROM THE INTERNET. IT'S A WEIRD CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT THE GUY WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS PROMULGATING. >> ALI, I WOULD SAY THIS SO 40 YEARS AGO THERE WAS A PREVIOUS PRESIDENT WHO MADE A SPEECH ON THE SECOND TO LAST DAY OF THEIR PRESIDENCY. AND THAT SPEECH TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF IMMIGRANTS AND IN PARTICULAR, THE FACT THAT OUR COUNTRY'S STATUS IS A BEACON OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY TO THE WORLD IS ONE OF THE CORE PARTS OF AMERICA'S GREATNESS. THAT PRESIDENT WAS A REPUBLICAN. IT WAS RONALD REAGAN IN A SPEECH THAT HAS BECOME MEMORABLE OVER THE COURSE OF THE ENSUING DECADES. IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF JUST HOW FAR UNFORTUNATELY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AT LARGE, OF COURSE LED BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SO MANY OF HIS SI CA FANS HAVE GONE AWAY FROM WHAT WAS OUR COUNTRY. I FIND IT DEEPLY OFFENSIVE AS DO YOU. THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DO TOO. AND THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE DIVISIVE RHETORIC THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS HIGHLIGHTED. THEY WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT. THEY WANT A NEW WAY FORWARD.