Problem Solvers Caucus

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The 46-year-old Pappas has represented New Hampshire in the House since 2019, where he's a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.

He defeated a progressive candidate.

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Like, they just want fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, um, because they're so angry about what they've seen over the last year and a half plus.

And that's where Gottheimer, who's a moderate, who's, um, you know, s- in that Problem Solvers Caucus, which includes some Republicans, which I think a lot of people in Washington look at as a model and say, "Gosh, wouldn't it be nice if, if that would actually work?" Well, the issue is it hasn't really worked, uh, and we've only gotten more and more partisan.

So there's the fighting part of it, the Democrats just want to see that.

But beyond that, I think the, the, the listener is right, um, in that-- I don't have poll numbers in front of me.

And we took out their radar.

My congressional source tonight is the co-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus, New York Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi.

And sir, I mean, obviously when it comes to this, do you believe it matters if the administration describes this as a war or not?

I mean, it's really irresponsible.

The administration is not reaching out to Congress and working with Congress to advise them what's going on, to help work together with some of the greatest minds in the country that know this stuff pretty darn well, to work together to actually address the very real problems we're facing in our world.

You know, but you're a Democrat who works with a lot of Republicans.

I mean, hence by the name of being the co-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus.

Do you think that Congress, though, has just totally abdicated its role in the Iran war?

know? I mean, listen, as you know, I've been very committed to bipartisanship.

I mean, my first caucus I joined when I became president, A member of Congress was the bipartisan problem solvers caucus where it's half Democrats, half Republicans who join.

And, you know, we have working groups around, you know, the budget around immigration reform, permitting reform, whatever it is.

Like right now, we're all trying to come to a consensus about the ACA.

Um, but I think the most important component of it is what side of the, of the ledger are you on in terms of compound interest? Is compound interest working for you, meaning you have money to invest, and it's working to benefit you? Or are you on the other side of the ledger, where compound interest is working against you because you have credit card debt or other debt, and you're paying interest on existing debt? And that, that dichotomy is really the, the, the bifurcation mark, I think, in our economy and our society in terms of how hard it is for people to get ahead.

Now, um, there's probably one area of bipartisan agreement, unfortunately, on Capitol Hill.

It's to run large above it, budget deficits year after year.

But an area that the Cato handbook and, and your affordability agenda agrees is that, um, large budget deficits, unsustainable long-term, uh, fiscal projections are putting pressure on families' budgets already through the interest rate channel, arguably through the inflation channel that we've just lived through as well.

And, and inflation as well.

So we just need to do a better job of connecting the dots.

And one of the things that Brian and I support is the idea of a, a fiscal commission to look at the deficit and come up with a solution w- in a bipartisan way.

Because, you know, everybody...