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 GOP Rep. Lawler calls for going after Social Security and Medicare: “Social Security and Medicare…. We’re going to have to deal with those two programs”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1710371285388156929/pu/vid/avc1/640x360/hJlaUQ4-J7qK-l33.mp4?tag=12 
 President Biden: I’m sick and tired of Republicans in the House saying they want to cut the deficit when all they really want to do is cut taxes for the very wealthy and big corporations

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1710332952448565248/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/L-HGe8GU2GSPr3CS.mp4?tag=12 
 Gaetz on Republicans’ impeachment inquiry: “I just don’t get the sense that it’s for the sake of impeachment. I think it’s for the sake of having another bad thing to say about Joe Biden” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gaetz-biden-impeachment-rosendale-rcna119131 
 Democrats spent today bringing down drug prices. 

Republicans spent today bringing down the Speaker that they themselves elected.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1709329529511006209/pu/vid/avc1/720x900/IhT88Ry0rfLIrm44.mp4?tag=12 
 Gaetz: If this House of Representatives has ‘exceeded all expectations’ then we definitely need higher expectations

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1709295693301485568/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/7cK873IhZvseldXw.mp4?tag=12 
 GOP Rep. Garcia: I fear this self-inflicted drama today jeopardizes our majority

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1709293841612771328/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/IyZ4RccQhdDfLvU1.mp4?tag=12 
 Gaetz tells Jordan that Republicans’ investigations are a sham, calls it “failure theater”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1709287395441467392/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/1LW-Z3TPcExM6Myk.mp4?tag=12 
 Reporter: Do you think Republicans deserve to be back in the majority next year? Why? I mean this is not really something voters would think about, that you guys are functional up here

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1709276020115648512/pu/vid/avc1/946x530/FMZtF4IXlXF3GU49.mp4?tag=12 
 Former GOP Rep. Chaffetz: There is no end game in mind... I don’t understand what Republicans are doing

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1709273374441050112/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/fXlCWHJtWKqWncUe.mp4?tag=12 
 Leader Jeffries: The chaos, the dysfunction, the extremism that we see on the other side of the aisle... It is not one or two individuals. It is the approach that Republicans have taken to governing and it is hurting the American people

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 GOP Rep. Mace asked if she has evidence for her impeachment claims: “I have not had the ability to research that”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1708494289485877248/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/FK8-ycsp3u7fE7zC.mp4?tag=12 
 Leader Jeffries calls out House Republicans for focusing on an impeachment inquiry that their own witness says is baseless instead of funding the government

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1708180064003604480/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/ll3mJbhu_fqfVKn3.mp4?tag=12 
 President Biden: “[Trump] called service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ Was John a sucker? Was my son Beau, who lived next to a burn pit for a year, came home and died, was he a sucker for volunteering to serve his country?”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707485486770507776/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/RGY5rZhZimK-r4Yg.mp4?tag=12 
 McConnell: House Republicans shutting down the government is an “actively harmful proposition” that will drag us backward

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707405508234100736/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/V3mMERPl1YYSJZp2.mp4?tag=12 
 DeSantis Advisor Ryan Tyson: Trump isn’t the same candidate he was in 2016, is running a “basement strategy”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707398424989966336/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/rE5O1NiMZ_VacA4J.mp4?tag=12 
 Donald Trump on the President of UAW refusing to meet with him: “I don't like him very much. What's he going to do, meet with Biden?” (He did meet with Biden)

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707231397490872320/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/lD7-na5HrDfwhzD3.mp4?tag=12

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7FN6SXWYAA1v4u.jpg 
 In an already bizarre riff about typographical errors or something, Trump confuses “on purpose” with “on perfect”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707222757245665280/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/fUKXx2PmKQNCtYDa.mp4?tag=12 
 DeSantis: “[Donald Trump] owes it to you to defend his record where they added 7.8 trillion to the debt. That set the stage for the inflation that we have now”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707205194814017536/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/YmadGMDAZGxISt7z.mp4?tag=12 
 The problem with Donald Trump saying he saved the auto industry is that he did not do that

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707194004201201665/pu/vid/avc1/720x720/YTg6yV9UfGv2yg7N.mp4?tag=12 
 Trump on union workers: “They get their little 5 percent, they get another 2 percent... All of a sudden they’re making more money than the people that own the company”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707190439516733440/pu/vid/avc1/1026x720/11iCTzjkc0pCcHRc.mp4?tag=12 
 McConnell: If Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans shut down the government, they are voting to defund border patrol

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707080579508781056/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LCNbgz7YIGnhlkcL.mp4?tag=12