Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So I think, like, Democrats need a plan. And I've been in the Senate for, like, 112 or 15 days, and I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it. So I just, like, wrote a war plan, decamped with a bunch of my closest, like, friends and advisors, and wrote our best stab at what we should be doing as a country to push back on the threats to our economy and our democracy.
I mean, yeah, look, I got the chance to give the response to the State of the Union and I made a choice to do that from Michigan. Because if I could give a speech that could work in Michigan and not turn me into a Saturday Night Live skit, then I thought I think it would work for the country.
Like Michigan, I think, is a good bellwether, a good canary in the coal mine on what's going on, particularly on our economy right now. And so what all I can do is, like, take the lessons every single day from what is going on, no shit, no kidding, in my state.
And then sort of express to people that I'm going to go fight for them and fight for my state. And that means a good thing for us, but a good thing for the country, too.
I didn't say alpha male.
But it's alpha. You don't have to be a male to be alpha energy.
Well, that's what we have to do. I think there's no choice. And I think you're right that the attack ads and framing your enemy, your adversary is what happens in political campaigns. But like, suck it up, buttercup. We got to turn that around.
Right? Like, you can't just let someone else define you. You have to say what you're about, not just what you're against. And I think Democrats, you know, what Trump is doing is unprecedented. And so we're on our heels. We're trying to figure out where to look first. So, you know, we got to understand that we have to have a plan to know where we're going as a group, right?
And stop turning our guns on each other as Democrats, right? Can we all agree that that, like, where the adversary is in this situation? So, you know, I think that is what we owe to the American people, actually.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, Michigan, I think, is like uniquely positioned to be extremely vulnerable to these tariffs. One, because our manufacturing sector and how we've been working for a long time to build our supply chains with Canada, our neighbor, and then also our farming industry, right, who gets all the retaliation. What we're seeing right now is like peak uncertainty.
People are just feeling like COVID times, like I don't know what to do. Do I invest? Do I not invest? Do I build that factory? Do I not build that factory? Do I expand? Do I make those orders? And right now, the first sort of like tip off we're seeing is cut down in like orders. So trucking is down, right? The number of hours our truck drivers are driving are going down.
And I think that's just the start of this. And, you know, if you're lucky enough to be a bigger business, you can go cut a deal with the White House.
He's created this unbelievable marketplace of like every country has to come to me, every industry. But if you're the small guy, the small business owner, the guy who owns a supermarket in my town, no one's cutting him a deal. And he's at risk of going under. So he's slow rolling us into a recession.
And we need to be clear about that because he promised he was going to put more money in people's pockets. It's the opposite. It's the opposite.
I think I would let them speak for themselves, but I think they're either going to be really right or really wrong.
And I just don't have faith that there's some Wizard of Oz behind Donald Trump coming up with a grand plan that's going to make this all work. All I see every day is people are paying more for goods. Yeah. No plan on housing. More for energy. I mean, more, more, more, more, more.
So if you're the guy who said you were going to actually bring money into their pockets, instead he's making you pay in every part of your life.
It's weird to clap for that, by the way.
Yeah. I think, look, I think part of what I worked on in this kind of war plan is if you're an activated person and you want to do something, do one of two things. Either go deep, particularly on an issue of democracy and corruption, because every single day he is threatening our democracy and he is like milking the cow of America as like a full time job. Right.
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