Summary
➡ The speaker, a Republican, is unsure about the party’s stance and is worried about losing financial support due to their vote against aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. They mention a donor who was upset about this decision, highlighting the influence of money in politics.
Transcript
There was a time when Republicans resisted this. I don’t know what the republican party stands for at all. We’ll get to Speaker Johnson in a minute. I have to ask sort of a personal question. You have received campaign contributions from AIPAC. Will you suffer now because of your vote against the aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel? I believe so, yes. Let me just tell you, before I took the vote on the aid, I had a donor who’s a friend, and he’s a donor. He called and he was bent out of shape. And so we do. We all face that.
I mean, this is the reality we face that. This is a money business. This is a money town. This is a company town. This is a cartel in Washington, DC. And when you step outside of the cartel and you try and. Which is, by the way, that’s what largely with the freedom Caucus, is largely what Thomas wants to do. So many of us started that cartel to try to restore what we think are the proper bounds of government, which is the constitution. You suffer a price. We’ve got people who joined me who are now facing people that have been promised $3 million to run campaigns against them.
I’ve seen the ad buys that have become out, some against some of my colleagues who have taken these stands with me..
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