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Ro Khanna says Trump signed the act only to dodge a veto override, then sent JD Vance to start a cover-up

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Now playing on All Clips Ro Khanna says Trump signed the act only to dodge a veto override, then sent JD Vance to start a cover-up Ro Khanna Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

In a Breaking Points interview alongside Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna says Trump tried to pressure Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene, bringing some into the Situation Room, and that Congress was adjourned and Adelita Grijalva left unsworn to stop the act. Khanna says Trump signed only after realizing 80 to 90 Republicans might override his veto, then told JD Vance to go into the Situation Room and "start the cover-up."

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Who
Ro Khanna
Where
interview - Breaking Points
Original footage
Breaking Points · watch the full video from this moment
Length
42 seconds, unedited within the cut
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And Trump tried everything from including intimidating Thomas' colleagues, Lauren Bulbert and Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Some of them he brought into the situation room to get them not to support this. They adjourned Congress. They didn't swear in Adelina Grajava. They tried everything. Then what happened? Not Not only did they realize that we were going to pass the act, Donald Trump realized that he was going to get probably 80 to 90 Republicans to be willing to overturn his veto. And that's when he signed the act, and he told J .D. Vance to go into the situation room and start the cover -up.

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