Episode

12/17 The Rise of the New Right and MAGA w/ Laura K. Field

December 17, 2025

It’s Hump Day on the Majority Report:

On today’s program:

At a House Rules Committee hearing, Rep Jim McGovern (D-MA) highlights how many times Donald Trump has promised to unveil a health care plan going back 2015.

At the same hearing, Rep Chip Roy (R-TX) has a melt down over the Republican’s inability to draft a realistic health care proposal

Political theorist, Laura K. Field joins Sam and Emma to discuss her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.

In the Fun Half:

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) stumbles through his health care talking points on CNN

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says that they will not be releasing the full video of their double tap on a boat in the Caribbean.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) says that after leaving a briefing with Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio that he is confident that the U.S. had no legal or national security justification for the boat strikes.

ProPublica and the New Yorker have reported that potentially hundreds of thousands of people have died since Elon Musk dismantled USAID which makes Jillian Michaels statement that the starving children is a “red herring” look pretty bad.

All that and more.

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