support mike johnson for speaker. this is one of the most extreme social conservatives at. as an openly gay person, he s someone believes i should have your rights in this country. and i have never will never support mike johnson. if other folks want to support him in some sort of master deal to get a government funding deal in place, we will see what happens, but let s remember what is actually on the line. republicans cannot put it together because they re only listening to the extremist base. it is folks like marjorie taylor greene who have been leading all of these impeachment-palooza efforts, as you call, them around the president on day one on his first day in office he file that resolution against mayorkas and against our secretary of defense, and they are trying to create chaos. we have real serious challenges. there are millions and millions of people in this country that are not just federal workers but even many more that defend and fun on federal services. the postal servic
we have a lot of enforcement mechanisms and also have work on improving the migration system. and so, really, like i said, if this was a matter of migration, migration or border crossings have gone down 70%. it s crossings have gone down 70%. it s not a matter of that. what it is is greg abbott is a caricature at this point and he s really he s really playing to his right wing extremist base. playing to his right-wing extremist base. ., , , ., extremist base. congressman, i want to ask extremist base. congressman, i want to ask you, extremist base. congressman, i want to ask you, before - extremist base. congressman, i want to ask you, before you - extremist base. congressman, i want to ask you, before you go l want to ask you, before you go here, there s a new federal investigation, you mention these allegations from a texas border state trooper, of allegations of officers denying migrants water, pushing them back into the rio grande, how concerned are you an increased focus on
the same right-wing extremist organizations. the same dark money, the same funding, when i say that they cannot untangle them selves, these legislators, cannot detach themselves from their extremist base, this is what we re talking about. so, even though they have the polling in the data and the research, they re hearing from their constituents, they can t stop this. and then you have the domino effect, right, and how this can kind of affect health care overall, looking at this latest survey, out of university, over 50% saying, doctors, very unlikely or that they re unlikely, or very likely, to apply to our residency program. in a state with abortion restrictions, and more than three quarters, saying access to abortion care would influence where they would pursue their residency. you know, in states with abortion bans, we re already seeing hospitals close. we re seeing ob/gyn practices shut down. we re seeing distance in time, for folks to get to care increasing. and there s a re
state of north carolina, republicans they re getting their supermajority after one lawmaker there suddenly switched parties. and then subsequently, suddenly, switch their stance right on abortions overall. nebraska as, well republicans merging their abortion ban bill with gender affirming care, being able to subvert or go around the normal bill proposal process. what do you make of this? they can t get these things done with overwhelming majorities. they know how tenuous their support is, they see the same numbers we re hearing. they cannot untangle themselves from their extremist base. so, they are making deals, taking unusual measures, you know, combining in nebraska of abortion legislation with gender affirming care bands is really telling and underscores a really important point. which is opponents of these fundamental freedoms, freedoms for bodily autonomy, let s be clear, are unified in funded by
water already. i really hope it doesn t happen. everyone thinks a deal is imminent and maybe it s not so dire, but we just don t know. we haven t been in this situation before. congressman, can you explain why congress plays chicken like this? why? what s the point of this game? when it democrats were in this situation and they could have played chicken they often did not. during the trump presidency. exactly. so really what we re seeing right now is the original sin of all of this is kevin mccarthy had to make a deal with 15 potentially more extraordinarily extremist republicans who were representative of an extraordinary extremist base. and one of the criteria, one of the pillars of the deal they made is he s got to engage in this suicidal mission, this politically idiotic to make the debt ceiling a political issue when during the campaign,