Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Chaos And Carnage Caused By Donald Trump As He Approaches His 100th Day In Office
Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the chaos and damage inflicted on American families by Donald Trump and his administration as he approaches his 100th day in office. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:
This week, President Trump marks 100 days as president.
It’s been 100 days of hell for American families, for our economy, and for our democracy. The start of Donald Trump’s second term has been the worst start of any president in modern times. He now has the lowest approvals any president has seen through his first 100 days, since they started polling 80 years ago.
Tomorrow night, Senate Democrats will take to the floor to highlight the disaster of Donald Trump’s first 100 days. We will expose his broken promises. We will expose his lies. We will expose the ways he is threatening democracy. So, we will take to the floor and expose Donald Trump as a disastrous president on his first 100 days. We ask America to listen.
On the day he became president, Donald Trump promised a golden age for America. Today that seems laughable.
Instead of a golden age, what Americans have gotten is one of the most chaotic, corrupt, and harmful starts to a presidency in modern history.
Before our very eyes, the man who occupies the Oval Office is destroying the foundations of our democracy.
Federal law enforcement are arresting people with little due process – even going as far as arresting a judge in Wisconsin.
At least four U.S. citizens – all of them children, two suffering from cancer – have been illegally deported. It’s sickening, it’s immoral.
Freedom of expression, the rule of law, is under attack. Government has been weaponized against the free press, against academic and judicial independence, against anyone who might disagree with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump doesn’t want to be the president of a Democratic republic. He has said he wants to be a king, or some kind of dictator – he said let me be a dictator for one day, but his actions show he wants to be one for much longer.
Meanwhile, billionaires like Elon Musk have been handed the keys to the federal government with little accountability.
Donald Trump claimed he’s a better President than George Washington – but he takes inspiration more from the likes Viktor Orbán or worse.
So, 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term, what exactly do Americans have to feel good about?
Is it that Donald Trump’s trade war has pushed our country to the brink of recession?
Is it that his tariffs will cost families an average of $4,700 annually?
Is it that CEOs and business owners are warning about rising costs, empty shelves, and an economic downturn?
Maybe it’s that the Dow Jones is on track for its worst April since 1932.
The truth is Donald Trump’s presidency is no golden age. It’s a disaster – the worst start to a new administration in modern times. Americans are already fed up.
Americans are already beginning to see that Donald Trump has betrayed them, that Donald Trump's campaign promises before he won election and his actions as president are almost in direct contradiction on issue after issue after issue.
They are seeing that Donald Trump is not on their side. He is not on the side of working families. He is on the side of the billionaires. And we're all suffering for it.
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