Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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You save a lot of money by getting rid of the financial cops, the people who found over the last dozen years, $21 billion, which they returned directly to the American people who got cheated. Yeah, cut those financial cops and claim that that is a savings. Well, it's sure not a savings for the people who get scammed.
You save a lot of money by getting rid of the financial cops, the people who found over the last dozen years, $21 billion, which they returned directly to the American people who got cheated. Yeah, cut those financial cops and claim that that is a savings. Well, it's sure not a savings for the people who get scammed.
You save a lot of money by getting rid of the financial cops, the people who found over the last dozen years, $21 billion, which they returned directly to the American people who got cheated. Yeah, cut those financial cops and claim that that is a savings. Well, it's sure not a savings for the people who get scammed.
And that's the whole heart of this, because it's all about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, a handful of billionaires, which is mostly what that cabinet is, saying, how can we run this country to just make the grift work better for the billionaires? And who's going to pay for it? It's going to be our little kids. It's going to be seniors on Social Security. It's going to be our veterans.
And that's the whole heart of this, because it's all about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, a handful of billionaires, which is mostly what that cabinet is, saying, how can we run this country to just make the grift work better for the billionaires? And who's going to pay for it? It's going to be our little kids. It's going to be seniors on Social Security. It's going to be our veterans.
And that's the whole heart of this, because it's all about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, a handful of billionaires, which is mostly what that cabinet is, saying, how can we run this country to just make the grift work better for the billionaires? And who's going to pay for it? It's going to be our little kids. It's going to be seniors on Social Security. It's going to be our veterans.
It's going to be our public school kids. It's going to be people who get scammed. That's what I hear when I watch that cabinet meeting. And it starts to make me sick, and then it just makes me furious.
It's going to be our public school kids. It's going to be people who get scammed. That's what I hear when I watch that cabinet meeting. And it starts to make me sick, and then it just makes me furious.
It's going to be our public school kids. It's going to be people who get scammed. That's what I hear when I watch that cabinet meeting. And it starts to make me sick, and then it just makes me furious.
So we've actually gone further even right now. Remember, the authority that Trump is using has built right into it that all Congress has to do is pass a resolution and say, sorry, no emergency. We are not in an emergency with France or with Canada or with South Korea. We're not in an emergency.
So we've actually gone further even right now. Remember, the authority that Trump is using has built right into it that all Congress has to do is pass a resolution and say, sorry, no emergency. We are not in an emergency with France or with Canada or with South Korea. We're not in an emergency.
So we've actually gone further even right now. Remember, the authority that Trump is using has built right into it that all Congress has to do is pass a resolution and say, sorry, no emergency. We are not in an emergency with France or with Canada or with South Korea. We're not in an emergency.
And it rolls back Trump's ability to do any of these tariffs, all the ones he's announced and all of his red light, green light with tariffs. All of the Democrats are lined up, ready to go. Ron Wyden and I introduced the resolution yesterday. It has to be voted on in the floor of the Senate. So we'll be doing that in a couple of weeks. We just need to get the Republicans to join us.
And it rolls back Trump's ability to do any of these tariffs, all the ones he's announced and all of his red light, green light with tariffs. All of the Democrats are lined up, ready to go. Ron Wyden and I introduced the resolution yesterday. It has to be voted on in the floor of the Senate. So we'll be doing that in a couple of weeks. We just need to get the Republicans to join us.
And it rolls back Trump's ability to do any of these tariffs, all the ones he's announced and all of his red light, green light with tariffs. All of the Democrats are lined up, ready to go. Ron Wyden and I introduced the resolution yesterday. It has to be voted on in the floor of the Senate. So we'll be doing that in a couple of weeks. We just need to get the Republicans to join us.
We don't have to have all of them, but we need some of the Republicans to join us. And when we do that, Donald Trump will lose the ability to create the chaos, at least with the tariffs, and Congress will reassert its rightful role over its job in setting tariff policy, excuse me, as the Constitution of the United States anticipates.
We don't have to have all of them, but we need some of the Republicans to join us. And when we do that, Donald Trump will lose the ability to create the chaos, at least with the tariffs, and Congress will reassert its rightful role over its job in setting tariff policy, excuse me, as the Constitution of the United States anticipates.
We don't have to have all of them, but we need some of the Republicans to join us. And when we do that, Donald Trump will lose the ability to create the chaos, at least with the tariffs, and Congress will reassert its rightful role over its job in setting tariff policy, excuse me, as the Constitution of the United States anticipates.
All right.
All right.