The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou
you mentioned it earlier. dana bash put out i thought a really good package together on the new chair of the house appropriations committee and the ranking member the first time in over 30 years that we have had women as a chair and ranking member of a committee. whenever we have gotten into shut down politics or an issue like this it s because we don t have a working appropriations process. whether you agree with donald trump on this or not, if congress doesn t do his job, the executive fills that void and this is where congress needs to stand up. let s take a moment and listen to nick mulvaney talking about what he calls an imperial presidency. an imperial presidency is dangerous for everyone. this is the premiere issue right now in washington d.c. i don t think we will get anything across the president s
it? you heard the democrat chair of the house intel committee over the weekend saying this is going to be a moment of truth for my republican colleagues. will they allow this to happen and allow congress s authority to be seeded to the president here on this? i wonder if you think they will act as in vote against the president on this one? you will see more of a vote against trump in the past. we will get to a veto proof majority? more republicans will peel off on this than they have on any trump initiatives before because they see this is a real loss of power for congress. i would say democrats and republicans under democratic presidents and republican presidents have seeded too much authority into the executive branch which is a longer obviously conversation but ultimately, poppy, we are always in this situation because of something that is not a terribly sexy political issue. that is called a working appropriations process.
president and his allies can make and maybe they will win in court. but being legal and the right thing to do, that s a different argument here. when you re talking about the separation of powers and talking about what some people consider to be an abuse of power, a president going around congress, it is a major, major action and it needs to be noted. it does. and this is this is a long-term problem and this is a problem that s gone on for a long time before this point where congress has continually seeded its authority to the executive. that was true under obama, bush, and well before that. and ultimately when we talk about having a working appropriations process, it s not really the sexiest issue, but i would tell your viewers, look at the segment that dana bash produced on nita lowey and the ranking member, the first twooim time two women have helmed the operations committee. if we have a working
questions of whether or not republicans can govern. so you re saying the vote tomorrow, it has for the good of the republican party, it has to pass? yeah. this is about a lot more than health care. it s about whether or not we can pass tax reform, about whether or not the president can pass an infrastructure bill, a working appropriations process. this is a gut check moment. while it s familiar to me and dan and folks in the capitol. when the food comes late nights. this is a gut check moment for republicans. the bill has to come up, and if it doesn t pass, there are going to be repercussions for republicans moving forward. i couldn t agree more. they have to pass this bill. that s why they will. because they have to. and they all know they have to. can i talk about ask you and jeffrey, maybe, ask you this question about the deficit? you have republicans want to lower the deficit, et cetera,