Suzan DelBene

They-- one major target, by this way, is the president's use of emergency powers, they said, and they're saying this publicly.

Trump has declared roughly a dozen emergencies during his second term and used emergency authority to, uh, get things done in areas ranging from tariffs to immigration enforcement, National Guard deployments, and they say, "No, no, no, we're getting rid of that." You've got a couple of Democratic representatives, DelBene and Don Beyer, they've now introduced legislation, they say, that would prevent presidents from imposing tariffs through national emergency authority without congressional approval.

Therefore, it would take away the president's ability to leverage tariffs on other countries.

Raskin has drafted also other legislation already.

She's been helping out, trying to get into the majority.

And then we had the, uh, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Suzanne DelBene, um, also there.

And it was just really inspiring to have us all together, fired up, like, really motivated, great, you know, great candidate, uh, in, in a seat that we can and must flip in CA-22, and, and to hear, you know, what, uh, Chair DelBene is, uh, is doing, D- sorry, Chair DelBene is doing all over the country, um, with, like, the resources that we have.

Like, we don't have the money that Republicans have, not by a long shot.

Um, you know, Elon Musk is, uh, dropping, uh, $366 million into this race.

Yet the Democrats smell enough blood in the water to mount an offensive there.

Although it is worth noting the DCCC chair, uh, Susan DelBene, said she still needs to raise another $17 million just to compete effectively across this suddenly massive battlefield.

Right, because the map got so big so fast.

Exactly.

And there's some people that say that Iran was ramping up their missile production, we had to stop them, but then there's a lot of other people that know a lot about nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and say n- not only is it, like, insanely difficult to develop a nuclear weapon, but they weren't even close to doing it.

Now I wanna bring in the chair of the DCCC, Congresswoman DelBene.

Just interviewed her.

She's in charge of the Democratic strategy to take back the House of Representatives.

You're gonna wanna watch this, and I think this interview will leave you feeling a little bit more optimistic, but certainly don't get complacent.

Now's the time to roll up the sleeves, ignore the polls, work harder than ever for democracy, for freedom, for liberty, and to hold the corrupt war criminals and those who cover up child sex trafficking rings, these despicable, vile pieces of trash, hold these people accountable.

Let's bring in my interview with Congresswoman DelBene.

I wanna bring in Congresswoman DelBene, who's also the chair of the DCCC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and this is big, home stretch.

That's our operating principle.

And so from the very beginning, uh, we charged Joe Morelle, who's the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, working alongside Susan DelBene, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to make sure that we have the largest voter protection plan in place in modern American history.

And that's what we've done.

Working with Senate Democrats, the Democratic Governors Association, our attorney generals, including Tish James right here in New York State, the Democratic Secretaries of State, partnering with the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, and civil society, including the good government groups, the civil liberties groups like the ACLU, of course, civil rights groups like the NAACP, organized labor, democracy protection groups, including the Brennan Center for Justice, uh, as well as the faith community all across the country.

[upbeat music] Welcome back.

Joining me now is Democratic Congresswoman Suzan DelBene of Washington.

She is also the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Congresswoman, thank you so much for joining me.

Trump has declared roughly a dozen emergencies during his second term and used emergency authority to get things done in areas ranging from tariffs to immigration enforcement, National Guard deployments, and they say, no, no, no, we're getting rid of that.

You've got a couple of Democratic representatives, DelBene and Don Byers.

They've now introduced legislation, they say, that would prevent presidents from imposing tariffs through national emergency authority without congressional approval.

Therefore, it would take away the president's ability to leverage tariffs on other countries.