Governor Josh Shapiro
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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We do that by giving them tax relief. We do that by bringing down their health care bills. We don't do it by cutting Medicaid.
This bill is not going to become law in its current form, not least because President Trump won't sign it. Manu, I've talked to him about this personally multiple times. He has been crystal clear in public, too. No Medicaid benefit cuts. We need to give a tax cut to working people, not raise their taxes when it comes to health care, not take away their health care benefits.
I hope this bill will get refocused on delivering relief for working families. That's what we ought to be doing.
I'm fine with that. You know, the president has floated that. He said maybe we ought to allow the top rate, the very top rate for people making over a million or over $5 million a year to go back to where it was before. It's like a one point increase money. I would be fine with that if that's what the president wants to do. Bottom line.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse · 8 May 2025
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These people live on a different planet, Sean. They're totally out of touch with reality. Donald Trump is turning the country around in 100 short days, and that's why they're desperate. The Democrats are totally desperate. They're jetting around now to foreign countries to hold hands with terrorists.
is that Joe Biden and Buttigieg and all the rest, they now act like they have no idea how the country got into this state. I mean, my gosh, inflation's really high. Gee, how did that happen? Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because Joe Biden shut down American energy production, spent three, $4 trillion on green new deal giveaways.
You know, he told you he would end the war in Ukraine. He would bring prices down eggs and now telling people, when did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? I mean, this was my whole point about this, you know, government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb and apparently now in your toy chest. That is it's insane. It's a command economy with him dictating.
It is no free market principles. My farmers have worked years to cultivate markets in a free market around the world. And we have thrived at that. We feed the world. We clothe the world. We power the world. Donald Trump is now deciding that he gets to do all of that. And the real thing is, is to enrich the industries he chooses. He's picking the winners and losers.
And in this case, the billionaires are winning. The rest of us are losing.
I, you know, I don't know this for my amateur psychologist. I think he listened to one class when he was back in the 80s or something at Wharton in his six months there or whatever. And he misreads this. It's a ludicrous philosophy. No one agrees with him. And then they come back to, well, Democrats put tariffs on. Yes, they're a tool. They're a scalpel.
You can use them when you have unfair practices. But he's talking about the thing that drives me insane with working with Canada and Mexico. He's the guy who negotiated the deal. And then he turns around and and says, well, we don't care much about Canada. I was glad to see the prime minister coming in from Canada saying, are you out of your mind? We're your biggest trading partner.
They are our biggest trading partner in Minnesota. They're our dearest friends. They're who we care about. He has no concept. This goes back to that idea. So many Americans thought, you know, we need to hire a businessman to run government like business. Two things about that are wrong. No, we don't need to run government like a business because we're not in the profit making.
We're in the proving lives and looking towards the future. And this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure. And I think the opening for Democrats is is to work with the business community. My I am. home to many large Fortune 500 companies that are put at risk by this. And I'll just say this. I'm calling these folks out. They need to stand up. He threatens them.
He threatens universities. Thank goodness Harvard's standing up to them. But that's how he gets things done. He doesn't get it done through competency. He doesn't get it done through results. He gets it done through fear, intimidation. And I'm with you. I wish he could have been weirdly obsessed with like pickleball or something rather than tariffs. That's where he could spend his time.
But it's on this tariff thing that doesn't work.
That's something that we're all gonna have to live with until we're able to overturn the Congress. And that in fact is one of the things I wanna say to everybody that's listening. If you're not out there protesting in front of a Republican Congressman's office or out in the street making your voice heard,
or calling your friends in another state to have them do it, or showing up in Washington, D.C. in front of their offices, those Republican congressmen, then you're not doing what's necessary to put pressure on them to vote the right way. This summer, they're gonna be voting on a budget. And we're going to see the consequences of that budget. What are they trying to do?
They're trying to lower taxes for the wealthiest people by raising taxes on you. Those tariffs, those are taxes that are put on working class, middle class people across the United States. And if we don't stop them, they're going to make things harder and harder for the very people that we as Democrats and all of our Democratic governors are trying to protect.
And that's the working families of America.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet · 30 Apr 2025
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It's time for us to be done with optimism about their motives or their objectives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don't know how to organize a group chat. It's time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy and wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children's cancer research. And time to stop thinking that we can reason or negotiate with a madman.
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