Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

to gut the ability to protect our nation and our democratic pillars, like voting from foreign adversaries, to gut, frankly, a lot of the things we put in place during the Biden administration to give people more access to health care, more access to lower prescription drugs. These were the things he did right off the bat, frankly, what he did to environmental protections.

to gut the ability to protect our nation and our democratic pillars, like voting from foreign adversaries, to gut, frankly, a lot of the things we put in place during the Biden administration to give people more access to health care, more access to lower prescription drugs. These were the things he did right off the bat, frankly, what he did to environmental protections.

And for a guy that lives in a city that has four times the asthma rates of the towns around us, the guy who lives in a community where kids suffer from all kinds of environmental toxins. He's allowing polluters to pollute more, which is gonna raise rates of asthma and emphysema deaths from those things and therefore raise healthcare costs and more people being rushed to the emergency room.

And for a guy that lives in a city that has four times the asthma rates of the towns around us, the guy who lives in a community where kids suffer from all kinds of environmental toxins. He's allowing polluters to pollute more, which is gonna raise rates of asthma and emphysema deaths from those things and therefore raise healthcare costs and more people being rushed to the emergency room.

And for a guy that lives in a city that has four times the asthma rates of the towns around us, the guy who lives in a community where kids suffer from all kinds of environmental toxins. He's allowing polluters to pollute more, which is gonna raise rates of asthma and emphysema deaths from those things and therefore raise healthcare costs and more people being rushed to the emergency room.

Everywhere I look, He is hurting people. He is hurting Americans. And the voices that I tried to read from the Senate floor, as many of them I could center as possible, they were Republican voices and Democratic voices. They were young voices and old voices.

Everywhere I look, He is hurting people. He is hurting Americans. And the voices that I tried to read from the Senate floor, as many of them I could center as possible, they were Republican voices and Democratic voices. They were young voices and old voices.

Everywhere I look, He is hurting people. He is hurting Americans. And the voices that I tried to read from the Senate floor, as many of them I could center as possible, they were Republican voices and Democratic voices. They were young voices and old voices.

They were Republican elected officials and Democratic elected officials all screaming to the moral moment that we're in, that we are in a crisis. We are in a crisis. We cannot allow this guy to stay the course of what he's doing.

They were Republican elected officials and Democratic elected officials all screaming to the moral moment that we're in, that we are in a crisis. We are in a crisis. We cannot allow this guy to stay the course of what he's doing.

They were Republican elected officials and Democratic elected officials all screaming to the moral moment that we're in, that we are in a crisis. We are in a crisis. We cannot allow this guy to stay the course of what he's doing.

Well, look, and I think you all have covered this place long enough. I think everybody kind of knows my views on tariffs. But the fact of the matter is the president ran on this There wasn't a campaign event where he didn't talk about the importance of getting other countries to treat us more fairly when it comes to trade, bilateral trade, multilateral trade in this country.

Well, look, and I think you all have covered this place long enough. I think everybody kind of knows my views on tariffs. But the fact of the matter is the president ran on this There wasn't a campaign event where he didn't talk about the importance of getting other countries to treat us more fairly when it comes to trade, bilateral trade, multilateral trade in this country.

Well, look, and I think you all have covered this place long enough. I think everybody kind of knows my views on tariffs. But the fact of the matter is the president ran on this There wasn't a campaign event where he didn't talk about the importance of getting other countries to treat us more fairly when it comes to trade, bilateral trade, multilateral trade in this country.

And 77 million people voted for him and his agenda. And I think he deserves the opportunity to see what kind of deals he can get from some of our trading partners.

And 77 million people voted for him and his agenda. And I think he deserves the opportunity to see what kind of deals he can get from some of our trading partners.

And 77 million people voted for him and his agenda. And I think he deserves the opportunity to see what kind of deals he can get from some of our trading partners.

I mean, again, we are as a Senate – or abandoning our constitutional obligations. The Senate was not created, Congress was not created to bow down to the will of an executive and let them do whatever they want. The Article I branch of government was to create a check and a balance on that kind of authority, on presidential power.

I mean, again, we are as a Senate – or abandoning our constitutional obligations. The Senate was not created, Congress was not created to bow down to the will of an executive and let them do whatever they want. The Article I branch of government was to create a check and a balance on that kind of authority, on presidential power.

I mean, again, we are as a Senate – or abandoning our constitutional obligations. The Senate was not created, Congress was not created to bow down to the will of an executive and let them do whatever they want. The Article I branch of government was to create a check and a balance on that kind of authority, on presidential power.