MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as GOP Betrays Him
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Uh-oh, it's not looking good for Republican Speaker of the House, Maga Mike Johnson. Thirteen House Republicans who voted in favor of the disastrous budget bill on Friday, they came out with a letter begging the Republicans in the Senate to

to basically remove a lot of provisions in the disastrous budget bill. And these House Republicans are basically saying, hey, we need your help. This budget bill is a complete disaster. So we're leaning on you, Senate Republicans, to fix this disastrous budget bill. Here's their letter right here. I want to share with you what it said, but I'm not going to read it.

I want to show you MAGA Mike Johnson's response first. And MAGA Mike Johnson's like, it's too late. We can't change it. We've gotten this far. There's nothing we can do. Here's MAGA Mike Johnson saying that. Here, play this clip. I don't buy their numbers. We have other estimates. We worked on the bill for almost 14 months. You can't go back to the drawing board. And we should.

He's just utterly pathetic. All right. So here's the letter right here asking the Senate to help mitigate the damages that were caused by the House version. And this is by House Republicans. Here's what they say. Dear Majority Leader Thune and Chairman Crapo.

Isn't it just so stupid when I read that? The dumbest thing ever.

While we were proud to have worked to ensure that the bill did not include a full repeal of the clean energy tax credits, we remain deeply concerned by several provisions, including those which would abruptly terminate several credits just 60 days after enactment for projects that have not yet begun construction.

a highly restrictive and onerous FEOC regime, and restrictions to transferability. This approach jeopardizes ongoing development, discourages long-term investment, and could significantly delay or cancel energy infrastructure projects across the country.

So you mean you oppose the bill? If that was in, like y'all realize you are Congress members, right? You are in the House of Representatives. So your plan was to pass, just, you know, you're all seeing this, right? That's why I read these letters. These 13 Republicans are saying that they purposefully voted on a bill that would bankrupt their congressional districts.

so that they can then send it to the Senate, so the Senate could try to fix their work that destroys their own constituents. That's what they're literally saying right here. They go on to say, since January, over $14 billion in energy projects have been canceled or delayed, with $4.5 billion scrapped in April alone. Again, pause there.

So former President Biden created jobs, right, with the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS Act, and other legislation. But since January, a lot of projects in these Republican districts, Democratic districts too, but in Republican districts have been canceled, causing their constituents to lose a lot of jobs. Hmm.

What happened starting January 2025? Oh, wait, was that when Donald Trump was sworn in and he and Elon Musk and Doge started immediately stopping these contracts that former President Biden pushed forward? You read this and that's why you're like, this is an absolute death cult. Like these people...

are addicted to what Donald Trump tormenting and torturing them such that they sell out their own constituents and then privately write this letter begging the Senate for help. It's so bizarre. It goes on and says, without a clear signal from Congress encouraging continued investment and offering business certainty as these provisions are phased out, project cancellations will continue to snowball.

without a clear signal from Congress, you're Congress. You are Congress. You writing this letter, that's quite literally what your job is. They go on to say, we respectfully urge the Senate to adopt the following refinements. You adopt it. Why don't you adopt it? That's your job is, what are you, a constituent? Are you like a constituent of the Senator writing a dear Senate letter? What are you doing?

First, the Foreign Entity of Concern provisions are overly prescriptive and risk undermining U.S. competitiveness, particularly against China, by restricting advanced manufacturing and domestic energy production. These provisions should be revised with clear and streamlined requirements that also allow companies additional time to reorganize their supply chains

ensuring a strategic and successful transition. Specifically, the Senate should work with impacted industries to ensure that these requirements are mechanically workable, thoughtfully designed, and offer certainty to critical sectors. Again, that's your job in Congress. Why didn't you do it in your bill? Obviously, you all hate this bill, but you're voting on it because it's called one big, beautiful bill, and you're scared of Donald Trump. So whenever they say, oh, we love this bill, just...

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Then it goes on to say, second, the House passed bill. Again, these people are in the House who are writing this. The House passed bill includes a phase-out schedule for credits that would cause significant disruption to projects under development and stop investments needed to win the global energy race.

To mitigate this issue, the current placed in service standards should be replaced with a commenced construction requirements to support the energy development needed to meet growing power demand and protect thousands of high quality American jobs and communities across the country. Due to ongoing permitting delays and factors often outside their control,

businesses rarely can pinpoint exactly when their projects will be placed in service the commence construction definition included in hr 3291 the certainty for our energy future act aims to give businesses flexibility when determining eligibility for the tax credits providing the investment clarity and lead time required for energy project to succeed finally the transferability of energy tax credit should remain available throughout the lifetime of the credit

Transferability ensures affordable electricity for American families and provides certainty for developers, enabling projects in nuclear manufacturing, biofuse, and critical minerals to move forward. Utilizing transferability allows small and medium energy developers

to harness private sector investment capital much more effectively, enabling companies across the economy to invest in a broad spectrum of generation technologies and domestic manufacturing facilities. Our position has always been that the energy tax code should be modernized in a way that promotes fiscal responsibility and business certainty, fully realizing that balance requires improvements to the house-pass version of HR1, the one big beautiful bill that

We believe the Senate now has a critical opportunity to restore common sense and deliver a truly pro-energy growth final bill that protects taxpayers while also unleashing the potential of U.S. energy producers, manufacturers, and workers. We appreciate your leadership and respectfully request your consideration of these necessary improvements to ensure America's energy future remains competitive, reliable, and secure. You would think that that was written by Democrats, right? You would think that...

It's the Democrats who are criticizing that. The Democrats are criticizing it. But the Republicans here are siding with a lot of the Democrat criticism or the Democrats' criticism of the disastrous budget bill. They were just too cowardly to do it when the budget bill passed the House. So now they're going around MAGA Mike's back.

and they're begging the Senate to do it, to bail them out so they don't get yelled at or tweeted at by Donald Trump. I mean, can you get any more pathetic than that? And the answer is yes, you can get more pathetic than that. Like here you have MAGA Mike Johnson yesterday going on Fox and saying,

Look, I've still been texting Elon. I've been trying to tell him that this bill is going to be beautiful and big. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be so great. Here's MAGA Mike saying this. Look, I like Elon. I respect him. I mean, we became friends in all this process. I've been texting with him even this week and trying to make sure that he has accurate information about the bill. I think he's been misled about it. But look, we're going to make good on this. I like the president's attitude. You know, he is moving on. He has to. He's laser focused on delivering for the

people and House and Senate Republicans are as well. So we've got our hand to the wheel. And then you have Meg and Mike saying, you see, the problem is Elon's relying on the liberal CBO analysis. The Congressional Budget Office is not freaking liberal. Get that through your skull.

The CBO is led by a Republican and you, MAGA Mike Johnson, have frequently cited the CBO before when you were criticizing Democratic legislation. But here's MAGA Mike Johnson saying that. He says that it doesn't cut spending and it drives up the debt or the deficit. What do you say to that?

Elon is relying on the liberal CBO analysis, okay? What they're arguing is that if we extend existing tax cuts, it somehow adds to the deficit. That is not new spending. What we're doing is providing tax relief for the American people because if we didn't do this, Jesse, everybody now knows, we'd have the largest tax increase in U.S. history at the end of the year. So what we're doing here is

having a historic level of spending cuts. We're talking about about $1.6 trillion in spending. Jesse, there has never been any legislative body in the history of mankind that has cut that much spending. Now, is it enough? Look, I agree with our friend Elon. We need to cut more spending, but you can't do it all overnight. So this is the first in a series of things that we are going to do to get the country back on fiscal trajectory, a sound fiscal standing. And the president promised that.

He believes in it. We believe in it. And we're doing that. And it starts with the big, beautiful bill. Now, what is Elon Musk's response to all of this? What do you think Elon Musk's response to all of this? I will apologize profusely as soon as there is a full dump of the Epstein files. That is Elon Musk's response to that. And this is the state of the Republican Party, where the Republicans in the House are writing to the Republicans in the Senate saying,

to remove the provisions that they put in a disastrous budget bill in the House because they were threatened by Donald Trump. They're realizing and they're saying in the letter, it's why I wanted to read for you the letter. Those are the Republicans in the letter realizing that they will destroy America's energy future if their own provisions survive. So they're saying, hey, Senate, we need your help. Bail us out. Bail us out.

Isn't that the isn't that ultimate cowardice? Don't try to think about this, not as even from a Democrat Republican lens, like just that. Doesn't that sound like what cowards do and dangerous ones? Because we're going to be the victims. We're going to be the ones hurt by this. What if the Senate says, no, we're going with it. We approve as is. So now they've all just agreed to just definitively bankrupt for the bankrupt us. Listen to their own language.

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