“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng was surprised on Wednesday by how briskly the Home handed a invoice to power the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein information, and predicted that the Senate would have a “plan to drag this thing out.”
Nonetheless, the Senate unanimously accredited the invoice regardless of Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s expectation that the higher chamber would amend it, an effort that might’ve seen the invoice returned to the Home.
Moments after celebrating the Senate as a spot the place “legislation and senators go to die,” Chieng appeared surprised by the invoice’s swift passage.
“Wait what? Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on — wait, how — how the fuck did it pass this fast?! I thought a bill in the Senate had to go through amendments and committees and floor votes and Mitch McConnell’s neck folds,” he quipped. “And they have to add some unrelated earmarks that somehow make Lindsey Graham millions of dollars. Like, how did they get around all that?”
“Wait, you can do that? Unanimous consent? Well then, why don’t you do that with every bill?” Chieng requested. “I mean, does it only work on bills with Epstein’s name? In that case, we might need to pass the Jeffrey Epstein Universal Healthcare Epstein Act Featuring Jeffrey Epstein!”
Watch extra of Chieng’s Wednesday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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