Joaquin Castro
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so even my insurance went up $2,400 this year.
And I got diagnosed with cancer three years ago.
And so now I'm paying $200 more a month.
That's a common story right now all over the country.
So you're either going to spend billions of dollars here in the United States for Americans, or you're going to spend billions of dollars over there in Venezuela.
And right now, Donald Trump is choosing to spend billions of dollars over in Venezuela.
And so that's a big concern for me, is he's talking about us running and fixing the Venezuelan oil industry and all that.
I mean, that's not a $500 thing, right?
That's billions and billions of dollars.
And for Venezuela...
You know often you've seen throughout history in latin america and other parts of the world, you know when you when you take out the leader It can often be a very destabilizing thing.
In fact, we just saw that there were like skirmishes Gunfire and so forth yesterday And you know, we don't know exactly what happened if it was an attempted coup if there's different sides that are starting to fight So, you know my concern for them is the destabilization
It's a country where you've already had millions of people leave to go to Colombia, to go to Chile, to come to the United States, or try to come to the United States.
So the destabilization.
And then finally, people are wondering, OK, well, what's Trump's foreign policy?
I don't think that he was necessarily acting in the best interest of the United States or even of Venezuela, although there are a lot of Venezuelans that are happy that Maduro was gone because in many ways he did abuse his people.
But I don't think that's what Trump was doing.
I mean, I think that his foreign policy is basically whatever makes Trump rich at this point.
I think there's like a small group of political cronies and family members that he is trying to enrich