I recently interviewed Congressman Ro Khanna for the 3rd time and he stated that he will not support #PayGo
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Ro Khanna is solid

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I told him to take on Pelosi for speaker, but he said he’s comfortable where he’s at. He’s young, though. I plan on pushing him again down the line.
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Love Ro Khanna!!!
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@HouseDemocrats This will be one of your first real tests on if you plan to enact change, or more of the same. Please vote 'No' and reject#PayGo from the House rules. -
we need a list of Reps on the fence
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PayGo sucks but I don’t see the need to fight over it now. It doesn’t matter until Dems win back Senate and Presidency. When that happens, then the incoming progressive President can easily have it eliminated to pass his or her mandated Medicare For All.
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If any move is to be made on these rules then now is the time to fight. Once it passes there isn't a "later." It'll allow for votes on important legislation that won't pass now with Republican control, but signal strong Democratic insistence on important issues.
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Unless the Democrats don't really want to go on the record for things like a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and Tuition Free College.
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Also, the Republicans voted something like 150 times to repeal Obamacare with no chance of it passing? Why not signal a real agenda like Republicans signaled their hatred of Obamacare?
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I get the having votes to show message, which is what I’d do, but Pelosi isn’t going to let message votes on Medicare for All and Green New Deal occur. She’s going to protect moderates from having to make votes. So even if PayGo is taken out, still would need a different speaker.
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It needs to go because Paygo will be the scapegoat for Pelosi to point to when populist political pressure demands that she start advancing some progressive policy bills.
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I'm going to be majorly depressed if there isn't 18 progressive Democratic votes against PayGo in the House. The whole CPC should vote no, as should anyone who is serious about their cosponsorship of Medicare for All (and not merely pretending to support it because it's popular)
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The whole CPC should vote no, but then you look at who some of the members are (Marcia Fudge, Hakeem Jeffries, Joe Kennedy III, John Lewis, Adam Smith, etc) and you start to wonder just how progressive the CPC really is. https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/
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Christmas is over, for all those wishes to come true, they have to be properly funded. Where do u think the money can come from? US debt is already sky high.
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Instead of giving tax credits to Corporations and
#WealthClass we would use our tax dollars for#MedicareForAll#GreenNewDeal#CollegeForAll#LegalWeed#EndPrivatePrisons.. that's where.#Congress wants#Austerity when it comes to#AllOfUs but never for the#WealthClass!#Paygo -
Doesn’t that also fit the Paygo rule? Reverse the cut on richest and fund all these projects? Also not a cent for the stupid wall.
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