Governor Josh Shapiro
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562 appearances
27 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Governor Josh Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The revolution kicked off here in Massachusetts with the shots fired and conquered in Lexington, and people joined up and down from all of the then colonies to form this amazing, amazing union in this great United States of America. And all of us in power are going to work our damnedest every single day to preserve that and to further that.
And that's the job of those of us in office and the job of all citizens and Americans.
You know, Jesse, a place like South Carolina, where you're from, really relied on textiles. And just like New York State, upstate New York, we've had manufacturing since the very beginning along the Erie Canal. It opened up commerce to the rest of the world.
And now it is so painful to see that as we've transitioned from the traditional manufacturing, the smokestacks manufacturing, where my grandpa and dad worked in the steel plants in Buffalo, we've now converted into an innovation economy.
And so we don't have those opportunities anymore, but Donald Trump seems to think that we're gonna overnight bring back all those jobs and everybody's gonna wanna work in those type of factories once again, not realizing our country has moved on. Yes, we need to do more manufacturing here, but it's gonna take so long, so long for that to happen.
He seems very conscious of the fact that he's going to cause short-term and long-term pain to the American people. and doesn't care because he's so committed to this concept that terrorists across the world are the answer for everything. I'll tell you the effects right here in New York State. We are on the border with Canada. We share a border with Ontario and with Quebec.
They're our largest trading partner. You know what has stopped right now? Trading. They don't want to send their products here. And our farmers and growers and people who rely on this opportunity to trade with Canada are just being stifled. They're not going to expand their facilities. They're not going to hire more people.
They're stagmired right now in a situation where they don't know what's going to happen because of the instability. I wish I could give you a better answer. I've got statistics that'll just blow your socks off in terms of how many people's jobs will be lost in one state alone because of these painful tariffs, these taxes. But most importantly to me, what it's doing to the average family.
And when their grocery bills are going to go up, despite Donald Trump's campaign promise over and over and over, that on day one prices would go down and instead they've gone up exponentially. I don't know how we can get away with that. So we're suffering. Our people are suffering. Our businesses are suffering. Our tourism industry is going to be flat on its back if we don't change.
It's because the Canadians who spend a lot of money in our country go to our little restaurants and our hotels and our attractions and go to Buffalo Bills games and go to Sabres games where I'm from. They're not coming because they're so angry at us for going to war with one of our best friends in the world.
So it's not just the tariffs, the talk of tariffs, it's also the relationships that are forever severed, at least at this point. We have to start rebuilding trust. And so here's the answer. We have to mobilize. And people like yourself do not think you are alone. There are people all over America who want to stand together. And you know where you go to?
I guarantee you have a lot of Republican congressional offices in your state, right? Guarantee it. I do as well. We have seven in New York. Go to their offices. Don't make it easy on them to stand blindly with Donald Trump and not feel the consequences of it. They must know what they've supported in Donald Trump's policies, that they're hurting the people who put them in office.
I'm a former member of Congress. I served at a time when the Tea Party was just running wild. They used to come and protest my town halls. It was hard, but you know what? I stood there and took it. These people are too chicken because they know they're on the wrong side of history here. But get out there with your friends, start writing letters, start sending the emails,
filling up their phone banks and just blasting them because when they start feeling enough pressure that they may not get reelected again, that's the power of the people that started way back when our country rebelled against a dictator and rebelled against a king. Donald Trump called himself a king when he shut down something called congestion pricing in New York. Called himself a king.
Said, long live the king. You can't make this up. He did that. But I said, we have not labored on our king for over 250 years and we're not about to stand for that now. So Jesse, you have the same sentiment as millions of us. We have to rally together, stand together, mobilize, organize, and get out there and vote next year to take back our country, at least the House and the Senate.
Well, first of all, April, I'm sorry for the challenges that you're going through. And when I listen to you, I think, as a state, we've made an enormous amount of progress toward addressing housing. In fact, as you may know, I put together a commission last year that came up with a bunch of really great ideas for us to follow through on, and we're doing that this year in the legislature.
We've put a lot of money toward our Department of Housing, and there's so much more that we can do. You heard Governor Healey talk about how the cost of building housing has gone up, and it really has. And of course, although under President Biden,
Inflation started coming down, which allowed the Fed to consider bringing down the cost of borrowing so that you could borrow money to take out a mortgage to build a house. But Trump came in. And he's reversed all that because of the damage that he's done to the economy and the increase in prices, the Fed is likely not to lower interest rates now.
So we have real problems when it comes to addressing this outside the state that are affecting the state. But in the state of Illinois, again, we're putting policies in place that are increasing housing. But I want to address the broader question that you were talking about, which is housing is a point of stability in somebody's life that allows, for example, people to survive and thrive.
Without it, people who have medical challenges aren't able to find the stability that they need to recover from those challenges. So housing is probably the very first and foremost thing that we ought to be addressing. So what did I do in Illinois?
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