Abigail Spanberger

Our president has endangered the long and storied history of the United States of America being a force for good.

So I'll ask again, is the president working to keep Americans safe, both at home and abroad?

We all know the answer is no.

In his speech tonight, the president did what he always does.

He lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted.

And he offered no real solutions to our nation's pressing challenges, so many of which he is actively making worse.

He tries to divide us.

He tries to enrage us, to pit us against one another, neighbor against neighbor.

And sometimes he succeeds.

And so you have to ask, who benefits from his rhetoric, his policies, his actions, the short list of laws he's pushed through this Republican Congress?

Somebody must be benefiting.

He's enriching himself, his family, his friends.

The scale of the corruption is unprecedented.

There's the cover-up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital.

This is not what our founders envisioned, not by a long shot.

So I'll ask again, is the president working for you?

We all know the answer is no.

But here's the special thing about America.

On our 250th anniversary, we know better than any nation what is possible when ordinary citizens, like those who once dreamed right here in this room, reject the unacceptable and demand more of their government.

We see it in the determination of students organizing school walkouts all across the country, whose voices are becoming so powerful that the governor of Texas seeks to silence them.