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Rahm Emanuel: “It’s time to take a power washer to Washington, DC!” | How to Fix It

2026-02-22 News & Politics
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Rahm Emanuel joins John Avlon to argue that Washington needs a full reset—age limits across all three branches, bans on congressional stock trading, strict Supreme Court ethics rules, and an end to “investor days” in the Oval Office. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@DayTrippingwithMimiandPaPa 2026-02-22

If citizens have a retirement age so should SCOTUS, POTUS and Congress. PERIOD

131 4 replies
@davidfoster9073 2026-02-22

Pay teachers more and CEOs less.

130 1 replies
@pattig5092 2026-02-22

Agree! Age limitation, term limits. Soon!

148 7 replies
@sandraspidle5972 2026-02-22

Remove the 2010 decision that corporations can donate all they want to their political preferences, so their corporations thrive. It's simple, really. Now, we need to put regulations on artificial intelligence companies. The Heritage Foundation has been sabotaging our government , full force, in 2016 to get Trump elected along with Peter Thiel working the system and getting into our military. Peter Thiel says he owns our military through Palantir, and Alex Karp is so excited about Palantir killing people!! Palantir didn't go through the protocol necessary to get acquire our American military.

107 2 replies
@Jgleason23 2026-02-22

The only way to save our middle class and country is to go back to the tax structure that created the middle class back in the 50s-70s. Back when we actually taxed the ultra rich. Back when a small business owner making 600k a year wasn’t being taxed the same federal rate as someone making 600 million a year.

132 4 replies
@CH-pv4xl 2026-02-22

End Citizens United!

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@ihatepenuts1 2026-02-22

The CEOs that "can't find people" just don’t want to pay people appropriately and are complaining about it. Don’t listen to them, regulate them

47 5 replies
@HoneyDems 2026-02-22

Take the $200Billion out of Palantir, private prisons, ICE pirates AI . PUT it into Education, FEMA, Local apprenticeship . Every thing in USA is A*ss Backwards.says IZ

38 1 replies
@wannalee611 2026-02-22

That should go for presidents too after 75 out of office

102 6 replies
@KatMcC03 2026-02-22

The President also should have an age limit.

25 2 replies

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