They've convinced him that it's in his best interest to do for the next 9 months what Biden did for the last 15 months. --Thomas Massie
"I love what DOGE is doing... [But] they've got billion-dollar solutions to our trillion-dollar problems. And I'm not sure the money is getting cut... I'm worried that Trump's agenda, at least what we're seeing in the news, is not being consummated legislatively."
— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) April 6, 2025
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I love what DOGE is doing. There is sort of an issue though. They've got billion-dollar solutions to our trillion-dollar problems, and I'm not sure the money is getting cut. Has it gone back to the Treasury? Is it getting spent somewhere else? Are the courts going to tell Trump he has to spend all that money? So I'm worried that Trump's agenda, at least what we are seeing in the news, is not being consummated legislatively, and that's why he's having so much trouble in the courts right now. For instance, he held a press conference and said he's going to wind down our Department of Education. The problem with that is that the week before he signed a bill, the continuing resolution that I voted against; he signed that bill which fully funded the Department of Education. It was an appropriations bill. Those are laws. We passed a law, and he signed it to fund the Department of Education. And then a week later, he says he's going to shut it down. It doesn't work that way, and the courts are going to tell him that. So I support his agenda. I just think he's sort of getting hoodooed here in Congress by the Uni Party. That's what I . . .
01:10. What does "hoodooed" mean? "Hoodooed," is that a Kentucky term?
01:14. It might be. He's getting tricked by the Establishment, by the swamp here. You know, he won a massive election, and he has this huge mandate. And it's almost like there's been a coup here that nobody knows about in Congress. They've convinced him that it's in his best interest to do for the next 9 months what Biden did for the last 15 months. That's what a continuing resolution is. The funding bill we passed, I was the only dissenting Republican, the only one to vote against it. And, it . . . you . . . they were saying that there would be a shutdown if you don't pass this continuing resolution. The government wouldn't be funded, and everything was shut down, and there would be great backlash against the president. But it's a false choice. They should have given him a better bill instead of that continuing resolution that just copies everything Biden did.
02:09. So who is the "they" in this?
02:10. That would be speaker Mike Johnson and the lobbyists and the staff at influence him as well as the leader in the Senate.
02:19. So they have been, they've trick Trump, you think, into carrying on with this bill?
Yeah.
