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00:00Good morning. Pleased to be joined. Still morning. Pleased to be joined with Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, Ted Lieu.
00:11This week, Republicans have laid out exactly who they are fighting for.
00:15After weeks of promises that they wouldn't cut Medicaid, their budget contains drastic cuts that will throw millions off of health insurance.
00:24After campaigning on helping working class Americans get ahead, their budget once again rewards billionaires and wealthy corporations and makes it harder for families to make ends meet.
00:36They are watching prices go up because of Trump's reckless tariffs, and their response is to take food off of the table for women, veterans, and children.
00:47The Republican budget doesn't address the cost of living crisis. It makes it worse.
00:51The cost of groceries, clothing, and everyday necessities are still too high, and Republicans want to add to that and make health care more expensive on top of it.
01:02This isn't about helping people find good-paying jobs or a shot at a better life.
01:07This is simply about helping people like Elon Musk pay less in taxes.
01:13House Democrats believe that we can shore up these basic needs, programs, and help everyday Americans reach their full potential.
01:21It's long past time that the wealthiest of Americans pay their fair share, and we make it easier for working families to afford basic needs like health care and housing.
01:31These devastating cuts will make Americans, particularly children, sicker, hungrier, and poorer.
01:39They're shortchanging the future just so their friends can continue to get richer.
01:45The American people cannot afford the Republican budget, and House Democrats are using every tool at our disposal to stop it.
01:53I want to thank our Energy and Commerce members who continue to meet, Ways and Means members who continue to highlight the unfairness of this plan that Republicans are putting forward,
02:08and the Agriculture Committee who will continue to fight for nutrition programs throughout the day.
02:14Vice Chair, Ted Lieu.
02:14Thank you, Chairman Aguilar.
02:18Omaha, Nebraska is the sixth largest city in America led by a Republican, and last night, in a stunning upset, Democrats flipped that seat from red to blue.
02:29I want to congratulate Mayor-elect John Ewing, Jr., who's going to be the new mayor of Omaha, Nebraska.
02:35We also know that voters are very angry at Republicans who continue to enable Donald Trump's harmful policies,
02:43and the Republican mayor in this case aligned herself completely with Donald Trump, and the voters spoke out in Omaha,
02:51and now we have a Democratic mayor-elect.
02:54I also want to talk about now the Katori luxury palace in the sky gift to Donald Trump.
03:01There is no such thing as a free palace in the sky.
03:06What do foreign countries want when they gift massive amounts of money and other gifts to the president?
03:13Donald Trump should reject this gift of the luxury palace in the sky, Boeing 747, completely and righteously,
03:22because we are the United States of America.
03:24We don't need gifts from foreign countries.
03:26We can build our own very impressive Air Force one.
03:30We don't need to fly a Qatari plane around as our Air Force one that's also un-American.
03:37I also want to note, new reporting came out showing that to retrofit this Qatari 747 would take perhaps up to a billion dollars,
03:45because you can't just fly a palace in the sky from a foreign country.
03:49You have to actually make it safe and secure.
03:51You have to make this plane ready to launch nuclear weapons.
03:54You can't have people eavesdropping on it.
03:57And so it's going to cost way more money to do it this way.
04:00And again, people need to ask, why is a foreign country trying to give this massive gift to Donald Trump?
04:06And think of a precedent it would set.
04:09Would it be okay if Brunei gifted a luxury 757 to J.D. Vance for Air Force Two?
04:15Would it be okay if Germany gave a Porsche SUV to Senator Thune as his official car?
04:23Would it be okay if Italy gave a bunch of expensive Armani suits to Speaker Johnson for his official duties?
04:30No, it wouldn't be okay.
04:31Also because the Constitution says you can't do this.
04:34It requires congressional approval for the president to accept a gift of this size.
04:39And we urge the Republicans in Congress to stand up, speak out, and call for a vote if Donald Trump were to accept this essential bribe from a foreign government.
04:49And then let me now conclude on Medicaid.
04:51We now know that the Republicans lied when they said that they weren't going to cut Medicaid.
04:57They're cutting Medicaid by a massive amount of money.
05:01One of the largest cuts in U.S. history.
05:04Over 13.7 million people will be kicked off Medicaid.
05:07I also note that two-thirds of Medicaid, two-thirds of nursing home patients rely on Medicaid.
05:13This is also going to close down rural hospitals.
05:16It's going to make it so that health care for all of us becomes more expensive.
05:20Because if you don't have health care under Medicaid, you're still going to get treated.
05:23You just walk into the emergency room, and it costs even more money for all of us.
05:27So we urge the Republicans to reject this massive Medicaid cut.
05:31And I just want to say we told you so.
05:33We told you that Republicans were going to cut Medicaid.
05:35And now we know that they are doing it.
05:37So they lied.
05:38We told the truth again.
05:42Questions?
05:43Nick?
05:44I understand leadership is going to vote for the table.
05:47Congressman Sanadar's impeachment resolution today.
05:50Does leadership also plan to do so with Congressman L. Green's impeachment resolution?
05:54Well, resolutions in order to force a vote, resolutions of privilege have to be ready.
06:04And the individual, the maker of the motion, has to go to the floor and ask for that.
06:08We will deal with what is being offered this week.
06:12I have said before from this podium that this is not the right approach we should be taking.
06:17I'll join, we'll join members of the leadership team in voting to table that motion.
06:23Right now, our focus is on health care being stripped away from the American people.
06:31That is the most urgent and dire thing that we could be talking about this week.
06:36Everything else is a distraction.
06:41Andrew?
06:41That's it.
06:45That's all you got?
06:48Michael, then.
06:50Actually, I have a question for Mr. Liu this week.
06:52Oh, these are my favorite questions.
06:56House Energy and Congress Republicans put a provision in their bill.
07:02It's a 10-year moratorium on artificial intelligence.
07:06Most artificial intelligence models at the state and local level over the next 10 years,
07:11they passed the communications title.
07:12So it looks like it's going to be in the final bill.
07:16Given your role on the artificial intelligence task force last Congress
07:20and the interest that you have in this industry,
07:25what's your reaction to that particular provision?
07:28Do you think that it's helpful to prevent states and localities from regulating this industry?
07:35And what does it say that Congress hasn't really taken any meaningful steps to regulate artificial intelligence over these last few years?
07:43So thank you for your question.
07:45First of all, this has nothing to do with the budget.
07:47So I don't see how this survives the Senate, where I think the parliamentarian will be out of order.
07:53Just on the policy itself, I don't mind if we have federal preemption.
07:59We do have federal preemption in a number of areas in the law, but we can't preempt with nothing, right?
08:04There's no federal law or idea that we're preempting the states on.
08:10And so it doesn't make much sense to me to basically preempt with nothing.
08:14I think if we're going to preempt, we should say we want to do X, Y, or Z at the federal level,
08:18and that's why you states cannot regulate in this area.
08:21I also know that 10 years is an awfully long time.
08:24If what Congress wants to say is, look, give us a year to figure this out, that might make more sense.
08:30But there is no reason to have a 10-year preemption with nothing in its place.
08:37Yeah.
08:38I just want to follow up on the Congresswoman's hand in our articles.
08:42This morning he admitted that some members of his party strongly disagree with him,
08:47and he kind of said, I'm moving forward anyway because I think that it's always the right time to do the right thing,
08:54regardless of what members of my party think.
08:56So what would you say to the fact that he's pretty much admitting,
09:01I know my party doesn't want me to do this and I'm doing it anyway?
09:05I'll keep the conversations that I have with members, you know, between members.
09:10Many of us have made our positions known.
09:12Like I said, this is such an impactful moment.
09:16When our colleagues are locking themselves in a room for 24 hours to protect and defend health care for their constituents,
09:28we should be talking about uplifting that hard work.
09:32We shouldn't be talking about, you know, this proposal that is not ripe and not timely.
09:42That's what is most important.
09:44Impeachment is a tool.
09:45Look, like I said before, this president is no stranger to impeachments.
09:49He's been impeached twice.
09:51Impeachment is a tool that can be used, but it takes weeks and months to do.
09:57Right now, the issue of the day is will for Republicans stand up and support health care in this country for their constituents.
10:06That is a fundamental issue.
10:08Everything else is just a distraction.
10:11And we're seeing that play out in real time in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
10:15And we will see that again as this bill goes to the Rules Committee and comes to the House floor.
10:20That's what House Democrats are focused on fighting for.
10:23And I understand, as we've said before, it is a broad mosaic of opinions within the House Democratic Caucus
10:31that the vice chair and I get an opportunity to lead.
10:34But this is one that is a pretty easy call.
10:38Go ahead.
10:38Mike Johnson said this morning that he supports a ban on stock trading by members.
10:44Jeffries has said the same.
10:45Do you think that's something now that should be moved on very swiftly now that there's agreement from both parties leaders?
10:51This has been a bipartisan issue.
10:54Members on both sides of the aisle have talked about this.
10:57There's a lot of details behind it.
10:59I support a ban personally.
11:01But there's a lot of details that would need to be worked out.
11:05What is difficult for members to also comprehend is, yes, we believe that members shouldn't be trading.
11:12We don't believe that members should use any knowledge that they have in order to execute trades.
11:19Marjorie Taylor Greene and chairman of committees have recently engaged in some of this that is questionable.
11:26What is also questionable is the president of the United States being able to trade his likeness with meme coins.
11:34And he and his family profit to the tune of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in order to continue this grift on the American public and not just the American public to be able to profit from people around the country.
11:51So I'm in favor of a ban, but let's not also lose sight that there are plenty of things in which we need to hold the executive to when it comes to conflicts of interest and trading as well.
12:04I want the vice chair to speak to this too because he pointed to it.
12:30But look, I think candidates across the country are talking about the issues.
12:33They're talking about providing a better quality of life and lowering the cost that people face.
12:39That is fundamentally what folks want to talk about.
12:42And in the case in Omaha, you had one candidate who's talking about social issues, and then you have another candidate talking about potholes.
12:51The person at the local level who talks about potholes is probably going to win.
12:55And so I think keeping your eye on the ball and making sure that you're focused on the needs of your constituents is the absolute most important thing that you can do.
13:04And I think that's what those successful candidates are doing.
13:07Thank you.
13:09Donald Trump is not popular.
13:10In fact, he's the least popular president in over 80 years at the 100-day mark.
13:15His policies are not popular.
13:16Some of them are also lawless.
13:19And when Republicans align themselves completely with Donald Trump, then the voters get angry, and they're going to start taking them out in elections.
13:27And that's what happened.
13:28The Republican mayor was there, and she completely aligned herself with Donald Trump, and the voters removed her from office and installed a Democratic mayor who was going to work on issues such as what Chairman Aguilar said, fixing potholes and improving people's lives.
13:43Last question in the back.
13:46Thank you, sir.
13:47I wanted to ask your response to a president from the second quarter.
13:50They signed earlier that he said this aimed at cutting drug prices.
13:54If Republicans were serious about this issue, they would join with Democrats.
14:01They would have joined with Democrats when we lowered the cost of prescription drugs across this country.
14:06Right now, they and their friends are working to sue to unwind those efforts.
14:12That's unacceptable.
14:14There are bills that Democrats are carrying that would lower the cost of prescription drugs, actually put more money in people's pockets.
14:22All of this is just a disingenuous effort on the part of House Republicans and Donald Trump to pretend like they are looking out for people.
14:32If they were serious about it, the policy would be placed within their reconciliation plan.
14:37It's not.
14:38This is just a performance effort by the president.
14:42Thank you very much.
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