What the Democrats need to do to win, With Virginia Congressman Don Beyer. [15:20-20:20]

And now it looks like we're going to have to overcome the Texas redistricting, which is going to be really unfortunate. Yeah, it's an opportunity. Trump, I believe there are many factors in his election from the late entry to Kamala Harris to a little bit of racism and massage and he mixed in. But overall, the one big thing is people were upset with the cost of living. And yet Trump hasn't done a single damn thing in these six months to lower people's costs. And I think we're going to come back to that again and again. I want to get into more of the politics of the day and just a second, Congressman. But before I'm going to the other big bill after the one big beautiful bill so called was the decisions bill, which really struck me for you as unusual because this was Congress going back and unapproving money that they had already approved for many very important projects. Have you seen anything like this before? I haven't bill and it's just a couple of days ago public broadcasting system. Have the 60 years just shut down because of that. And in the meantime, it cut $8 billion from USAID, which was keeping children alive overseas. And we just burned tons and tons of food and vaccines meant for those children as rotting in warehouse of the United States because of these cuts. But the most fundamentally unfair thing bill is that our budgets are worked out in a bipartisan way. You need 60 votes in the Senate to pass one of these budgets. But you only need 50 votes to rescind it. So you can have Democrats and Republicans working together in good faith to pass a budget, sent president signs it. And then they turn around a week later. In this case was a couple of months later because it changed the president's and do a resistance bill and claw it back without getting the 60 votes. You pass in a bipartisan way and cut it in a nonpartisan way. And it's in a very heavily partisan way. It's just, it's not fair. And I think it's going to present a great problem as the people negotiating the next budget just don't trust Donald Trump to keep the word as he signs an appropriations bill. I was going to say it must so a lot of distrust even also among members of Congress. Absolutely, especially when the members of the House and Senate, the Republican members, many of them are my friends. I think many of them are good people. And yet they have shown absolutely no respect for the separation of Congress from the president. They've not been willing to fight not just for the institutional prerogatives, but no one's afraid to speak truth to power. And no one's willing to stand up to Donald Trump. That's very sad. You've never seen, I've never seen a speaker before, certainly not a Nancy Pelosi, shy away from confronting a president, Democrat or Republican when he was wrong. But especially as you indicate there, when the president is in a sense, you're serving powers that belong to the Congress. And the Congress just lets them get away with it. Yeah, just look the other way. Nowhere is that more obvious than with these tariffs, where the Constitution is very clear that tariffs and trade policy belong to Congress, not to the president. It does a budgetary authority as well. You can escape to politics of the day and we're not going to a congressman. We'll take a quick break. When we come back, start a software with what's going on in Virginia and what lessons we learn there for the rest of the country. Hold on, we'll be after a quick break. We'll be right back. We know, friends, for the last few weeks, I've been recommending organizations that I think deserve all of our support. And today, I want to come back to one that's very, very important. Act blue. I mean, if you share Congressman Buyers Drive as well as mine to take back the House in 2026, act blue is so important. They're the major fundraising juggernaut for Democrats. And you know they're damn good because Donald Trump has sued them or asked the Justice Department rather to investigate them for fraud. Of course, there's no fraud what they're doing. They're just collecting money and distributing it to Democratic candidates for every office possible around the country. And Donald Trump has not slowed them down one bit. Act blue actually raised $400 million for Democratic candidates in the first quarter of this year. And in the second quarter, after Donald Trump tried to sick the Justice Department on them, act blue raised $393 million. So go to actblue.com. Any Democrat you want to support for Congress, for Senate, for governor, for state legislature, for city council. Act blue will send the money directly to those candidates on your behalf. Actblue.com. Check it out. When you manage procurement for multiple facilities, every order matters. But when it's for a hospital system, they matter even more.