problem that they re not taking it very seriously. we re not having very honest conversations about what you have to actually do to get the budget in balance. that does require going after things like mandatory spending programs, entitlements, and there is no real effort made to explain that to anybody or talk about choices that needs to be made, we just have these things pop up and they say well now we will take sweeping cuts without actually understanding what is involved in making that math work. what do you think about the im great lakes subject that i brought immigration subject that i brought up at the end of the conversation. congress will say let more immigrants in, expand the tax base. we need a bigger tax base. our birth ray rate is going down. we won t be able to afford the older generation because there won t be a younger generation that is bigger than the younger. what about comprehensive immigration reform and when i asked about that he pivoted to border politics. a
caucus in line, and they re in earned the most votes for speaker, 11 times. now hakeem jeffries, who happens to be black. congressman chip roy decided, hey, our party can look diverse as well. we do have four black members of our caucus after all. and we can pick one of them. after that rousing speech by chip roy, dominance earned 20 republican votes during each round of voting yesterday. today, he held on to at least 13 votes for him. and against kevin mccarthy. who despite spending more than a decade in party leadership it s proven and capable of making the math work. donald s, on the other hand, to about 20 years ago pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge, has completed his first term in congress. and until they pick a speaker, he won t be sworn in for a second term. during the first, term donald s never served as leadership, in fact he ran against new york congresswoman, elise stefanik, for republican conference chair and lost. his colleagues did not pick him. but they picked hi
the most votes for speaker, 11 times. now hakeem jeffries, who happens to be black. congressman chip roy decided, hey, our party can look diverse to. we do have four black members of our caucus after all. and we can pick one of them. after that rousing speech by chip roy, donald earned 20 republican votes during each round of voting yesterday. today, he held on to at least 13 votes for him. and against kevin mccarthy. who despite spending more than a decade in party leadership has provided incapable of making the math work. donald s on the other hand, to about 20 years ago pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge, has completed his first term in congress. and until they pick a speaker, he won t be sworn in for a second term. during the first, term donald s never served as leadership, in fact he ran against new york congresswoman, elise stefanik, for republican conference chair and lost. his colleagues did not pick him. but they picked him to do this, to be the new nonwhite face of
there is an important reason for nominating byron and that is this country needs a change. this country needs a change, he said. and rather than picking the only member of congress who kept all the members of his caucus in line and earned the most votes for speaker, 11 times now, hakeem jeffries, who also happens to be black, congressman chip roy decided, hey, our party can look diverse too. we do have four black members of our caucus after all and we can pick one of them. after that rousing speech donalds earned 20 republican votes during each round yesterday. today he held on to at least 13 votes for him and against kevin mccarthy, who despite spending more than a decade in party leadership has proven incapable of making the math work. donalds who 20 years ago pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge completed his first term in congress and until they pick a speaker he won t be sworn this
limits, knock yourself out. if this was about policies, they would have been able to reach a resolution before it came to this degree of chaos. this is about hostage taking. this is about flexing. and this is about at the end of the day, does the math work. last night a bunch of mccarthy s allies came out and said there are four votes that are immovable. that didn t include scott perry and paul gossar. this is not about policy or whatever. it s not. this is, hey, this is what we want. we re going to, as you say, flex. they want power and the whole idea of the speakership, right, is to put the center of power in one place, right? where you a group of people get together and say, this is this is the person we have decided who s going to lead us but instead of the person they decide is going to lead us, they are lieding that person. do you understand what i m saying? be yeah, of course, its the