Schumer Statement on President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today released the statement below in response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress:

“President Trump’s speech had an air of unreality because what he said tonight was so different than how he has governed in the first 40 days.  He’s proposed nothing on trade or infrastructure, which might help working families; and his budget seems to cut education and medical research, which he talked about improving. The President is simply using populists rhetoric to cloak his hard right, anti-middle class agenda. The American people don’t want words, they want actions that help them.”