You know, the last time that Republicans controlled the House was 2011 to 2019.
And I think it's important to remind ourselves the things that the House of Representatives
focused on and did during the time that Republicans lost controlled the House,
because yesterday I did the segment for you about things are very quickly getting very stupid in
the House now that Republicans control the House of Representatives. And many of you wrote to me,
and I could tell that there was sort of a lack of awareness of what things were like during that
period that Republicans previously controlled the House. There was a total lack of doing anything
helpful to the American people during that period of time. And forget about lack of helpful.
Think about the damage that was actually done by Republicans controlling the House for that period
of time. Republicans in the House, when they controlled it, voted roughly 50 times to repeal
the Affordable Care Act. Now, you could, depending on how you want to slice and dice it in the ways
in which they did it. The number might be higher than 50 or lower, roughly 50 times in some way,
shape or form. Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That was one way
that they spent resources when they lost control of the House. Had they succeeded, it would have
resulted in millions of people losing health care, including people with preexisting conditions. Now,
thankfully, the repeal effort failed, but the fact that Republicans were willing to strip people of
their health care should be concerning to all of us. You might remember also at the beginning of
Donald Trump's term in 2017, they proposed that other health care plan, which would have led to
tens of millions of Americans losing health care coverage. Thankfully, that didn't become law,
but that was a priority for a formerly Republican controlled House Republicans, when they lost
control of the House, systematically rolled back environmental regulations. They withdrew from the
Paris climate agreement. They quite literally took actions that worsened the prospects for
Homo sapiens on planet Earth. They gutted the EPA's budget, making it harder for the EPA to
protect air, to protect water. But they were in control. These are the things they did. They were
a disaster on immigration, including separation of families at the border, caging of children,
although they could have moved forward on doing something more permanent with Dhaka. They didn't,
even though they controlled the house and they could have taken some of the credit. And then,
of course, on taxes, we can't forget the attempted tax bills Republicans tried to pass but failed to
pass and also what they did pass, including in 2017 under Donald Trump, exploding the deficit,
large portion of the benefits going to the top 1%. That's the record of Republicans
last time they controlled the House. And there's sometimes enlightened centrists, as I call them,
who love to say, well, divided government is good. It's good when one party controls
the Senate and the other the House so that nobody gets too much power. It's it's meaningless pablum.
It's just something people say to sound like they are thinking critically and moderate and
whatever else. When Republicans get control of a legislative body, they do horrible things. Now,
when Democrats control have control, they often fail to accomplish things as well.
But there's really no comparison here. And so when we think back to that period of time,
it really serves as a disturbing preview of what we're up against over the next two years.
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