well you are now watching live coverage of the total collapse of the Elon Musk Donald Trump partnership in governing in the House of Representatives tonight Elon Musk and Donald Trump took over the leadership of the Republican House of Representatives the leadership in that building in the last 24 hours and negotiated what Donald Trump falsely called a deal the problem was they were negoti ating with themselves in Congress a deal is a com is a is compromised legislation that creates enough votes and you know ahead of time that it creates enough votes to pass a bill
through the house and then pass it through the Senate with enough votes and then with the agreement that it will be signed by the president that's a deal in Congress every deal is a three-way deal involving enough votes to pass the house enough votes to pass the Senate with a bill that the president has already agreed to sign that's what a deal is it was impossible for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to make a deal without negotiating with Chuck Schumer the Democratic leader in the Senate and President Biden there is no deal in Washington now
without President Biden's signature something Elon Musk apparently doesn't know but still Donald Trump said quote speaker Mike Johnson and the house have come to a very good deal for the American people that's what he said earlier today Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson obviously realize that both Elon Musk and Donald Trump are legislatively insane decided to let the insane and impossible musk Trump Bill come to a vote in the house tonight this is Washington This Is How uh the the lawmaking is done uh it's a long process sometimes it takes a while to reach
consensus but we're going to do the right thing here tonight no no no that was not how lawmaking was done Mike Johnson knew when he was saying that that the legislatively insane musk Trump bill was going to fail spectacularly when the house voted a few minutes later after a Relentless 24 hours of pressure from Elon Musk the richest person in the world who is obviously the richest person in the history of Republican politics three dozen Republican members of the House 38 Republican members of the House of Representatives said no to Elon Musk 38 Republican members
of the House said no to Donald Trump after having their political Futures threatened by both Donald Trump and Elon Musk Trump and Musk said that anyone who voted against this deal should be knocked out of office in the next election they threatened the political lives of those 38 members of the House Donald Trump threatened Republicans who didn't vote for this bill today saying they quote should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible Donald Trump has never been more directly and personally threatening to Republicans than he was to day and Donald Trump lost Donald
Trump's threats meant nothing to 38 Republican members of the House Elon musk's threats and his billions meant nothing to 38 Republican members of the house so far Elon Musk has failed at every public lobbying attempt he has made since the presidential election Elon Musk told Republican Senators who they must vote for for majority leader next year and Republic Senators said no Elon Musk candidate came in third in the election for the Republican majority leader of the Senate next year Elon musk's support meant nothing to Republican Senators Elon Musk was part of the group that hatched
the brilliant idea of having Matt gates for attorney general Elon Musk lobbied publicly for Matt gates to be confirmed as attorney general Elon Musk lost badly in that lobbying effort and then yesterday you lbus decided to tell the Republican speaker of the house and the Republican members of the House of Representatives that the bill that they negotiated to pass the House pass the Senate and be signed by President Biden was no good and so speaker Johnson in effect today said to Elon Musk and Donald Trump go ahead show us how to do it and Elon
Musk got crushed on the house floor by Republicans 38 Republicans on the house floor crushed and humiliated Elon Musk and Donald Trump at the same time Republican speakers of the house in the 21st century have repeatedly had to deal with some of the most ignorant and irreversibly stupid members of the House of Representatives in history none more ignorant or more irreversibly stupid about legislating than Elon Musk who in the last 24 hours has proved himself to be even stupider than Donald Trump about how the House of Representatives Works how the Senate Works how the presidency
Works in other words how a bill becomes a law Elon Musk didn't learn that in his South African Elementary School like the rest of us did in the United States in elementary school or high school at the latest they didn't have that little song about how a bill becomes a law in Elon musk's South African private school school here is just one just one of the 38 Republicans who Elon Musk and Donald Trump promised to destroy today for voting against their bill it's embarrassing it's shameful yes I think this bill is better than it was
yesterday on certain respects but to take this bill to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine and that's it precisely what Republicans are doing does he sound afraid of Elon Musk does he sound afraid of Donald Trump that's chip Roy of Texas before the vote today Donald Trump said this about chip Roy chip Roy is just another ambitious guy with no Talent by the way how's Bob good doing I hope some talented Challengers are getting ready in the great state of Texas
to go after chip in the primary he won't have a chance after Donald Trump's ultimate threat against chip Roy and Bob good they were both among the 38 Republicans who voted against Donald Trump and voted against Elon Musk after they both issued the ultimate threat they could possibly issue to a politician we will kill your political career they cast that vote against Donald Trump in the face of the most extreme threat he has ever issued to members of the House of Representatives it is extremely unlikely even at this stage at this hour of Elon musk's
spectacular failure as a legislator that he knows there is only one person in the United States Senate who can bring a bill to vote in the Senate of course he doesn't know that Senator CH Schumer said in a statement quote it's a good thing the bill failed in the house now it's time to go back to the bipartisan agreement we came to that's Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer the only person who can bring a bill to a vote in the United States Senate you don't have to have a deal if the majority leader of the
United States Senate has not agreed to bring your bill up to a vote and vote for it so even if at the last minute those 38 Republicans decided that they really were too afraid of Elon Musk and Donald Trump and they voted to pass the musk Trump bill it would have passed the House Representatives then it would have died it would have gone to the United States Senate the phrase for that kind of Bill arriving in the Senate is Dead on Arrival but Republicans in the house killed the musk Trump bill without Chuck Schumer having
to even look at it it is impossible to overstate how colossal a failure this is for Donald Trump who is who's is a lame duck now every day for the next four years he's a lame duck he can never run again and for Elon Musk who embarked on his first legislative adventure and could not have failed more spectacularly and this this is very good news for America Donald Trump and Elon Musk are not in charge of legislating in Congress 38 Republicans think what Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to do is insane asinine is actually
one of the words that was used on the floor today by Republican chip Roy the weakness of Donald Trump in the Republican House of Representatives has now been fully exposed and we have never seen anything like it in an incoming president with his own party and the weakness and legislative stupidity of Elon Musk has now been fully exposed to all Republicans who all know how badly Elon Musk lost today and enough Republicans are not afraid of either Donald Trump or Elon Musk even when facing the most extreme threats Donald Trump and Elon Musk have ever
aimed at politicians obviously Democrats in the house did not vote for a bill that Elon Musk and Donald Trump negotiated among themselves without speaking to a single Democrat about it the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives Sim Jeff said this before the vote that crushed the musk Trump Bill we reached a bipartisan agreement to be there for farmers and families children seniors workingclass Americans all across the country the men and women who serve this country in uniform and are veterans House Republicans have abandoned that bipartisan agreement that we entered into in good faith a
bill that House Republicans negotiated gave us your word that we were going to move forward together on behalf of the American people it was a republican drafted bill that was posted by House Republicans and then one or two Puppet Masters weigh in and the extreme magga Republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy the well-off the well-connected Millionaires and billionaires not workingclass people people all across America one of the changes Elon Musk and Donald Trump made to the bill was to eliminate support of research on children's cancer and Donald Trump at the last minute
decided he wanted to add a dramatic increase in the debt ceiling an unprecedented increase in the debt ceiling to the bill even though the government won't come close to reaching its debt limit until June Donald Trump actually wants to pass a bill that will completely suspend the debt ceiling just totally eliminate it there is no debt limit for the United States for two years so that Donald Trump can run up the debt to any level at all with his tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk the provisions in this bill particularly as it relates to
suspending the debt ceiling for two years are designed designed to bring about a massive tax cut unpaid for for wealthy donors and for wealthy corporations for Millionaires and billionaires who clearly summon this Congress are working for and this bill is validation for it now what's been interesting to me is that for decades the Republican party has lectured America about fiscal responsibility about the debt and the deficit it's always been phony this bill proves it the one thing we do know is that every time a Republican president comes into office the one thing we can count
on Republicans to do is to pass a massive tax cut for wealthy Americans and in the process stick workingclass Americans with the bill by raising the deficit and the debt the phoniness in claiming that extreme magga Republicans are about workingclass Americans are the party of fiscal responsibility nothing could be further from the truth when you run up the debt and the deficit middle class families pay workingclass families pay and we are going to defend them [Applause]
