Governor Josh Shapiro
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562 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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I was Attorney General during the Trump years and we brought hundreds of lawsuits. And I can tell you that this administration is Far worse than than what we saw with with Trump won. And I think that's evidence by the past hundred days. I mean, what we've seen here in Massachusetts, firing of doctors and nurses from our VA hospitals, denying veterans care cuts to our.
institutions, which mean cuts to those who are currently right now involved in the process of discovering cures and treatments for ALS and Alzheimer's and cancer. We've had clinical trials with people on them shut down in Massachusetts because of Donald Trump's cuts to NIH. I think about the tariffs in very real terms. You know, as governor, my top priority has been building housing.
I filed and got passed a $5 billion housing bill to build more housing in Massachusetts so we can lower costs. And what does Donald Trump do? He puts a tariff on the lumber that's coming in from Canada for that and the gypsum and other materials that we need from Mexico to build that housing. So making housing more difficult at a time a governor like me is trying to make housing more abundant.
I cut taxes and, you know, every day he continues to do things that add to the inflationary pressures that are out there. I heard him earlier tonight, and once again, he lied. Eggs are still over $6 a dozen. And that's just where we are. And I think one thing that's also, I'll end with this last comment. Massachusetts, we're home to a lot of colleges and universities.
We have about 100,000 students that come here from around the world to study, to do research. Some of them pioneer new treatments, win Nobel Prizes. A lot of them are entrepreneurs. They start businesses, start companies that to take off and flourish, not just in Massachusetts, but around this country.
And with Donald Trump's terrible job that he's done to scare foreign students away, it was just revealed tonight the illegal efforts of DHS around the student visas, We have people who have packed up who have left because they're scared. And with that goes talent.
I'll also tell you the one who's winning in all of this, China, because right now China is on our campuses recruiting our scientists and faculty and saying, hey, Donald Trump is cutting your funding, but you come to China and we'll set you up with a nice lab and plenty of staff and everything. I guess it'll be in China that we're going to see those inventions and entrepreneurship and growth.
So we just got to keep speaking up and playing offense, talking about calling him out for the things that he's doing that are causing so much harm, and then continuing to talk about the things that we governors are doing in our states that make our states more competitive, safer, where there's greater opportunity. And I think all of us have records to show that.
I'm proud of Massachusetts because right now we're number one in education, healthcare, and innovation. My colleagues will rib me on that, probably challenge me. But the point is, we as Democratic governors know how important those investments are in science and in kids and education, workforce and the like.
Nice commercial from Massachusetts, by the way, Governor. Well done. Good to see my friends once again. And Ben, thanks for hosting this important conversation. The first 100 days, is that all it's been? It feels like every passing day we're finding another way that Donald Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
And I can't the stream of broken promises that many people in our country believed in him. It's just extraordinary. And I've never seen in all my life. And I've been involved in elective office for 31 years. The way that he is weaponizing the American government against its own people. And let's just dissect some of these things that he's done. I mean, you talk about the tariffs.
Who are they helping? Who are the winners in this? Seems to me we're all gonna be losers because the only ones getting jobs in this era are bankruptcy lawyers. And we're starting to hear even effects like toy manufacturers are cutting back production. Stores that normally do their holiday purchasing. This time of year, my mom had a small flowering gift shop.
We were buying our things in the spring for the next Christmas. i'm not sure santa claus is coming this year at the rate we're going because the cost is so high we're going to be driving businesses out of work and out of business and the cost in new york is estimated about seven billion dollars a loss of 280 000 jobs now
This is also gonna cost families in New York over $6,000 a person if these Trump tariffs, which I call the Trump tax, stay into effect. So at the same time, what are we doing? I'm fighting back. We're going to court. It's also a growth industry for all lawyers. My attorney general, Tish James, has been teaming up with the attorney generals from all across the country.
Today, I think we're filing a lawsuit to stop what they're trying to do, destroying our offshore wind industry. I know it's important to my New England friends as well. trying to stop the tariffs and litigation, trying to stop everything they're doing, the cutbacks, the $300 million we lost that's supposed to help build back communities after natural disasters.
Our people are hurting, not to mention the farmers. It's not just... Wall Street that's hurting in my state, it's also the main streets and the small towns and the farmers who cannot believe that their costs went up $10,000 a month to get more fertilizer and their feed that they normally get from Canada. So I have a whole litany, a parade of horribles.
But my concern is that the people of my state are hurting. They're hurting all over America. And we're going to keep going to court and standing up. But the next thing we can do best is to organize, take this anxiety and this anger and turn it into action. Action means we're mobilizing already for 2026.
And I'm proud to be leading that effort in the state of New York to help take back the Congress, because if we can finally get a firewall and stop at least part of this insanity, at least we got hope again. And that's what I'm focused on these days as well.
Well, thank you. And I have to say, one of our obligations as governors is to keep the peace when people are protesting. But I have to say, people are mobilizing on their own, and we are seeing peaceful protests all across the country, but especially in Illinois. I want to give you an example. There's a young woman down in Edwardsville. It's a
Southern Illinois town, about 28,000 people live in Edwardsville. Andy Smith is her name. And she went out with a sign and stood at the intersection of two highways that are nearby just by herself. She was so frustrated in early February about what Trump was doing. And she just held up a sign and said,
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