Newly Independent Michigan congressman Justin Amash said partisan dysfunction and corruption is 'much worse' than Netflix's 'House of Cards.'
" by President Donald Trump for leaving the GOP earlier this summer, told constituents in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday that the two-party system in Washington D.C. has broken the federal government. Amash referenced the Netflix show, which followed a calculated and manipulative congressman, Frank Underwood, as he took revenge on rivals in order to expose Washington corruption.
Amash said people in the real world of Washington care little about making policy changes or helping constituents, but instead are only interested in their own re-election. He reiterated that Washington politicians almost always put the interests of their respective party over the interests of everyday Americans., explaining how the show which featured the murder of a journalist is actually more productive than the real-life nation's capital.
"They'll do everything in their power to marginalize you if you don't play ball with them," Amash said, detailing how former House Speaker John Boehner pushed him out of a budget committee for not voting with the party 100 percent of the time.
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