"Hopefully, it ends -- personally, I hope it ends with the American people realizing that the Republican Party is incapable of leading and incompetent and unserious.

But, before then, we need to not just keep the lights on. We can't just keep the lights on at the Capitol. We need to make sure that we're keeping the lights on of American people. If the Capitol's lights are on, but our working families can't put food on their tables, they can't afford formula, then we have a bigger problem.

So that's what we need to be focused on right now. We need to make sure that we come up with a deal for working people, not just a deal for politicians who are scoring political points.

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To be clear, I will never argue with you about Matt Gaetz being a flamethrower wherever he is.

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We can all agree on that one.

But, to be clear, this is not the slimmest majority that someone's had, right? Other speakers have been able to deal with slim majorities. They have been able to deal with their caucuses being divided. Nancy Pelosi became speaker. It didn't take 15 rounds. She also had different points of her party that she was able to bring together.

This is unprecedented, and it's embarrassing, and it's the third manufactured crisis we have.

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Thank you.

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Yes, we need to be where the energy is.

The energy is on picket lines, and it's not just workers at the Big Three. We're looking at the WGA. We're looking at the actors. We're looking at coffee workers. We're looking at the whole span of our work force. This is a moment for labor. And they need to know that their government does work for them, does serve them.

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They blame the corporations, and they blame those bosses. And that's why they're on strike right now. They have been explicit about who they are blaming.

And CEOs that are making exorbitant amounts of money, while the workers are not getting more money. They know where their issues lie."

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