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Jeffries: "Bro, you don't even know the rules of the United States Senate. You can't do it on your own." [View all]
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump suddenly canceling the meeting that was supposed to take place on Thursday with Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer to avoid a shutdown as Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson seem like they want to throw the government into a shutdown.
"Don't even bother dealing with them," Trump said over a week ago. "We will get it through because the Republicans are sticking together for the first time in a long time."
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...for the last several weeks, Donald Trump was very clear. Don't even bother talking to Democrats. We're going to do this on our own.
Bro, you don't even know the rules of the United States Senate. You can't do it on your own. It requires 60 votes, which means you have to talk to Democrats in the House and in the Senate.
So, maybe Donald Trump is confused and thinks that Democrats are going to behave like our Republican colleagues. Republicans have been nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump's extreme agenda. The whole thing is embarrassing. Republicans on the Hill are a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.
But that ain't us as Democrats.
Bro, you don't even know the rules of the United States Senate. You can't do it on your own. It requires 60 votes, which means you have to talk to Democrats in the House and in the Senate.
So, maybe Donald Trump is confused and thinks that Democrats are going to behave like our Republican colleagues. Republicans have been nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump's extreme agenda. The whole thing is embarrassing. Republicans on the Hill are a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.
But that ain't us as Democrats.
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