The MeidasTouch Podcast - Congressman Gomez responds to Trump Economic Turmoil

Episode Date: April 12, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on people who voted for Trump becoming terrified at the condition of the markets and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Jimmy Gomez about his fight against Trump and the MAGA GOP who are running the country into the ground. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario trump voters are regretting what they did especially individuals in the market who are or who are looking at their pensions and 401ks right now, or those in the investment community. You had people like Geiger Capital, who had previously posted no one other than fairly stupid partisans on the left think that Trump is truly going to implement 20% tariffs on everything across the board. Maybe didn't predict 145% tariffs against China or whatever cockamamie formula they use. And then Geiger Capital responded to their own post recently.

I won't delete this tweet because I am a man of honor. But yes, I was wrong on the tariffs in November. He has indeed put blanket tariffs on every country. Trump 2.0 is very different. Also seeing a lot of posts like this. I've lost $208,000 since Trump became the president. I should have voted for, and of course the person can spell Kamala Harris's name correctly. It says Kamala and other statements like this. It's no secret I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for a global trade

war. He better fix this strife immediately if Republicans want a chance to keep the House or Senate. 71 million Americans have a 401k. We are the world's largest consumers. Our trade deficits could have been ironed out with a phone call. I believe this is a huge miscalculation. Democrats should be jumping up and down tonight celebrating. Actually, we're not jumping up and down celebrating. This is a horrible time generally for the country. I mean, the pain that Donald Trump is inflicting. Other posts like this, I'm a small business in a small town. 99.9% of America's small businesses.

We cannot survive the tariffs. I voted for Trump, so don't come on here and calling me a liberal. I can go on and on and on. Headlines like this, market turmoil puts bro sphere support for Trump under strain. And while as we're recording this, you never know with kind of the pump and dump meme coin economy that Donald Trump has turned our markets into. So I want to be careful what I say. But as the markets are once again in a crash mode right now, Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting and he talked about the big day we had the prior day. Here, play this clip.

Prescription drug prices are even to down. We're doing very well. It's been amazing. We had a big day yesterday. There will always be transition difficulty, but we had a, in history, it was the biggest day in history, the markets. So we're very, very happy with the way the country is running. Very happy with the way the country is running. Let's call in Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez. Congress member Gomez, he's very happy, very happy with it. Transition problem, very happy with it. What's your response to that? Well, it pisses me off. It actually makes me extremely angry because his economic plan, if he wants to call it it has just been creating chaos one We always knew taking on having a trade war would be difficult

Especially when you're picking a war with every single country in the on the globe including your own allies That was that's insane I always he always said oh these are to be easy to easy to win. Not when the opposition starts firing back. And that's what exactly started happening. And he just created a tailspin in the marketplace where you saw the stocks going down, down and down. You also saw the consumer confidence crashing. You saw banks started saying, hey, there's going to be a recession, recession, recession. And it just was a complete chaos. And what happens is you're starting to see it hurt really working men and women, people that need to look at their receipt when they go to the

grocery store or restaurant. They really need to buckle down. And here's the thing, those tariffs, he lifted the big ones, but not all the tariffs. So what you're going to see is you're going to see the inflation still go up. People still hurt. And once that happens, people start tightening their belts. They stop spending. Their revenues decline. And all of a sudden, when revenues decline, the small business owner starts cutting back on hours and then laying off people.

So we're in a downward spiral. It hasn't stopped just because he paused it for 90 days. The bond market, super bad. To an extent, if people are not scared, they should be because we were on the verge of having a financial economic meltdown. And this guy, the only reason he changed was because people were saying, hey, this is going to bring down the entire economy. So this guy is costing people their livelihoods, their 401ks. And I think that that's finally breaking through to the people that voted for him. But this guy has no idea what he's doing. He listens to an economic advisor named Pete Navarro, who made up an expert called Ron Vera to justify

his positions. That's insane. You run the, lead the Congressional Dads Caucus. You know, there were overall still in the last election, a lot of, you know, men who voted for Trump. I mean, but, you know, men, dads, you know, are, I mean, all Americans, but are feeling the pain. What's your vantage point from the Dads Caucus about what you're, you know, about what you're seeing? So the Dads Caucus, we started off, we only had six members. Now we're up to 45 members and it really is talking about the issues that men and families care about one how do you survive how do you actually earn enough how do you make sure things are not going up and up how do you kind of provide and and in a way um really kind of acknowledges people where they're at you know you're a dad you're a mom

you're struggling but we want to figure out how to make life easier for you. And one of the things that we've known is that when we talk to dads about raising a kid, saving for a house, losing a job, mental health, we had people talk about mental health. We had them talk about gun violence. When you talk about mental health we have them talk about gun violence when you talk about issues that impact them they're more likely to have to listen to your other uh other policies right but when you sit there and you kind of like don't have that conversation don't treat them as a a valued part of your your coalition well then all of a sudden they start moving away from you um and this appeals, the Dad's Caucus, we have everybody who is from a blue dog to a new dem to progressive members.

It's ideologically diverse, racially diverse, and geographically diverse. It's one of the few caucuses that actually can do that because we start where people's priorities are, themselves and their families. And a big part of that is health, making sure they're healthy, their families are healthy, their parents are healthy. You know, one of the things about this budget, in addition, the MAGA Republican Trump budget, in addition to giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the billionaires, is it's gutting Medicaid, but they almost pretend that they're not doing it. Not that it could even get worse, but it does in the sense that then they're deceitful about it. Like, that's not what we're doing when they're doing it. Here's what Speaker

of the House, Maga Mike Johnson, said earlier today after pushing forward the Senate blueprint, which by the way, looks nothing like the House blueprint, but they're just pretending that they're going to go along with this until, I guess, what, we hit a debt ceiling and then we're in another crisis mode. But here's what Maggie and Mike says, then I'll get your response to it all. No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who's duly owed. What we've talked about is returning work requirements. So, for example, you don't have able-bodied young men on a program that's designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They're draining resources from people who actually do that. So if you clean that up, insure it up, you save a lot of money and you

return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day. We have a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid. Just one tiny example. The estimate is $51 billion. Congressman, your response to that? The Republican plan is really defund, defraud and lie to the American public. And here's the defund. They're trying to cut Medicaid. They're trying to cut Social Security by making it so hard for people to get their checks they're trying to cut the department of education they're just trying to cut cut cut without giving a damn of who it's going to hurt so that's the defund and then they want to take that savings and use it to defraud the american people by giving tax breaks to the top one tenth one percent the billionaires the

ultra wealthy uh and making sure that the corporations get a lower tax rate as well. That's how they're going to defraud the American people. And then they're lying about it. Here's the thing. He said, oh, that's not what we're doing. Their own budget instructions to the Energy and Commerce Committee says you have to cut $880 billion out of federal spending. Well, they have jurisdiction over Medicaid, Medicare, and some other spending. Well, the other spending is only, you cut everything to the bone, you get rid of it, you only cut $200 billion. So where do you get the other $680 billion in savings that they need? Medicaid. Yeah, they can do some tightening up

work requirements, which is shameful in itself because it's going to hurt working people. But that only saves you about $100 and $120 billion. So they're straight up lying. That's why I actually went to Valadeos, Representative Valadeos in Bakersfield's district, held a town hall. He has 67% of his district on Medicaid, and he doesn't care. And it's like, that's because either you're lying about the math,

lying that you're going to cut the deficit, or you're just lying about your entire plan. So their defund, defraud, and lie strategy, we got to just expose it and make people know what really is going on. Finally, I got to ask you about this because LAUSD is in your congressional district and LAUSD is sprawling in the Los Angeles area with schools all over, but the headquarters is in your district. So on Thursday, LAUSD confirmed that plainclothes federal agents tried to question kids at two elementary schools in Los Angeles Monday, but were denied entry by administrators. Superintendent Carvalho said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids, but it wasn't true. Carvalho said the agents were seeking to talk to five children who came to this country as unaccompanied minors and are in the care of

legal guardians. LAUSD's legal team is responding. The agents did not have warrants to access the campuses and especially where we're seeing the Trump regime disappearing humans without due process and sending people literally to concentration camps in El Salvador. I mean, I want to get your reaction to this striking story today and just generally of the disappearing of human beings with no due process. You know, I was just made aware of the superintendent, what happened in L.A., USD. It's extremely scary because this basically says that the Trump administration knows no bounds and has no dignity when it comes to dealing with even young children.

And as a dad, you know, that is something that worries me. And I'm glad that the superintendent and also the guardians of these individuals stepped up, because even if you're undocumented, you have certain rights in this country. And I've been holding Know Your Rights workshops. I've been going door to door, handing out that information. So people are not fooled by ICE agents saying that they have a warrant when they don't. And that's the best way to protect right now,

protect our communities is to make sure they have that information. And here's the thing, when they're pulling people off the streets, sending them to El Salvador, that is just one step of pulling American citizens themselves off of the streets. He's even looking into that. If you basically his press secretary said, oh, we're looking into it to see if it's legal. We don't know if it's legal. This administration doesn't care about the law. They don't care about the custom and practices. They're going to try to push their agenda.

And what people have to decide for themselves, that one of these court cases won't reach the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court, if they rule against them and Trump ignores it, what are they willing to do? Because we're not a country of kings. We're a democracy. And people are going to have to decide, are we going to stand up or we're going to let Trump actually trample on our Constitution? This is getting real serious and real dangerous. Congressmember Jimmy Gomez, thank you for joining us. We need you to come back soon you were here in the early days of the Midas Pets Network

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