“Are You Kidding Me?”: McGovern Claps Back at Speaker Johnson’s 'Voters Made Wrong Choice' Remark

Mr. Speaker, the sun is coming up and soon it will be a new day in America and the American people are the ones who are bringing the light. They voted against the chaos, the corruption and the cruelty and they voted overwhelmingly in red states and blue states, in small towns and in big cities from sea to shining sea to reject this president and this failed administration. They They voted to repudiate MAGA. To rebuke Stephen Miller and Elon Musk and Kristi Noem and Kash Patel and all the rest of the incompetent clowns empowered by Donald J. Trump. And the American people delivered their verdict on the work of this failed Republican majority here in this Congress. Come January, Republicans will no longer be in charge around here. Their incompetence and their foolishness and their obsession with culture wars And billionaire giveaways have cost them the majority. And what is stunning to me, Mr. Speaker, is that instead of taking the hint or listening to the overwhelming majority of Americans who told them to change course, Republicans are doubling down on the same tactics and messaging they've been jamming down our throats these last two years. And it's a perfect example of why they lost in the first place. They do not listen. Speaker Johnson said yesterday that the voters made the wrong choice. The voters made the wrong choice? I mean, are you kidding me? Now, you might disagree with their choice, Mr. Speaker, but it's not wrong. You just ain't listening. And then to double down even further, the failed lame duck president appointed Stephen Miller, the architect of all the cruel policies that most people hate. As his new White House Chief of Staff, Mr. Speaker, what planet are these people living on? Republicans need to take a long, hard look in the mirror, because if they don't break with this delusional thinking and actually start listening, start rejecting extremism, it's going to be a long, long, long, long time before they are ever in the majority again. But let me be clear. It is not enough for Democrats simply to win power. Now we need to use that power to make a real difference in people's everyday lives. To put economic power back in the hands of everyday people instead of the rich and the powerful. For too long, for too long, the greedy crooks and out-of-touch Mar-a-Lago billionaires have gotten away with screwing over the American people. It is time to hold them accountable for ripping us off with their corruption. Groceries, gas, housing, health care, everything costs too damn much. And people are wondering why. Why in the richest country in the history of the world, it's gotten so hard just to make ends meet. Republicans chose to cut health care and food assistance to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. They've let corporate greed run wild. They've spent the last two years looking the other way while the rich and the powerful enrich themselves while the rest of America falls behind. They've let this war in Iran go on and on and on while the value of the president's own oil and gas investments goes up and up and up by tens of millions of dollars. Are you kidding me? And Republicans wonder why people are fed up. This whole damn system is upside down. And today, instead of doing something to address any of that, Republicans schedule a debate about a bill on investment plans that won't do a damn thing to bring down costs for ordinary Americans. And here's the thing. And here's the thing, Mr. Speaker. I don't think the American people voted last Tuesday just to trade one political party for another and go back to business as usual. They want things to change. They don't want us to nibble around the edges or just undo what Republicans did and call it a day. They want us to reject the broken status quo in Washington that for too long has stolen from those with the least to give more to those with the most. It is time for economic power in this country to return back to Main Street, to working people, to small business owners who have been screwed over and screwed over for far too long by the rich and the powerful. Democrats understand that. We know that through the results of Tuesday's elections, we have been entrusted with an enormous responsibility. My Republican colleagues apparently heard something else entirely. They can keep blaming the voters, but come January, things are going to change around here. And we're going to make damn sure that that change we fight for means something, that it means something to the people who sent us here. And I reserve my time. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.