wave. but that isn t stopping donald trump from making his play for latino voters in two swing states in the sunbelt, as the 2024 race heats up and a day after extreme temperatures at an arizona rally, gave his supporters literal sunstroke trump was just on stage in las vegas, using hot, overheated rhetoric to paint himself as a victim, as he preps for his first video meeting from new york probation officer tomorrow, following his felony convictions. but the critical issues in arizona on topics like immigration and abortion and its on actual policy that trumps campaign rhetoric has been lacking this weekend. on the other hand, president biden is flying back from france after using his pulpit to take action on our southern border, and the biden campaign starts the week hoping to cease on shifts in his favor on polls conducted after trumps 34 felony convictions. he now is minute berrigan. democrat from california, and chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. congresswoman, t
a friend of mine, a veteran, and her husband was killed fighting in afghanistan. she is worried about her disability payments, she s worried about her survivors benefits and g.i. bill. she s mad at everyone in coke right now. mad at president obama, too. she said she fought for this country. she was okay with the fact not okay with it, but she understood her husband dying to fight for this country. she does not understand why congress and the president cannot get together and solve this problem, so she doesn t have to worry about her paycheck. can you give her an answer? i want i sure can. again it s going to sound political when i say this, but only four people in the house of representatives voted against the veterans funding bill back in june. 127 days ago. we could solve the issue that she is most concerned about if harry reid would just bring that particular bill up for a vote on the floor. all right.
political pawns. there have been four bills that have been sent over to the senate 127 days harry reith has sat on the funding bill for veterans. i take your point. i have asked democrats that question. i m not going to respond on their behalf. what did they say? the answer of the democrats about why they won t are you talking about the piecemeal? you re talking about the larger veterans bill. again, that s where people are getting confused. they re saying we should not fund the government piecemeal. the fact is, jake, if we use regular order, it is done piecemeal through 12 different appropriations bills. we have already sent the veterans funding bill, the d.o.d. over to the senate and they have chosen not to take them up. you ll have to take your questions to him. i would be a bad spokesman for him. i have not asked him that question. i do want to read a her written to me and get your response.