Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
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What is Donald Trump's strategy regarding data and measurement?
As Donald Trump's failures continue to mount, as his regime is showing what an utter disaster it is, Donald Trump's plan now is what his plan usually always is, which is just attack the data. Remember what he said back in 2020 with COVID, which he completely mishandled, didn't handle at all? If you don't do the testing, then you don't know, you don't have to know what's even going on. So here's what we know from today, a great article out from ProPublica. Trump's war on measurement means, losing data on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, and more. He's just going to try to erase the data gathering from the various agencies. And I'll just give you an example right now. There was a deadly E. coli outbreak that hit 15 states. but the FDA chose not to publicize it.
That would normally be something that would be publicized. This is from NBC, which found out about it. The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a nine-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure. That really didn't get reported anywhere until now. And had we known about that, people could have taken safety precautions. I was also thinking about that press conference that Donald Trump did in the Oval Office on Friday, where he tried to claim that the real issue with eggs and egg prices are that they're too cheap and there's too many eggs. Just play this clip of what Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday. And the egg prices are down 87%. But nobody talks about that. You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low. So I just want to let you know prices.
Yeah, just entirely false. U.S. egg prices have increased to record highs going into Easter. You know, literally, if you look at the remaining data that we have, you can see that. But they want to get rid of all of that data. And to me, it's a throwback, as I said at the outset of this video, to what he was saying in 2020. Don't do the testing. Then you don't know if there are cases. Remember this. We made this video a few years back at the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip.
So I said to my people, slow the testing down, please.
Come on now. That was tongue-in-cheek. Please. I don't know that it was tongue-in-cheek at all. I know it was tongue-in-cheek. He has said testing's frankly overrated. We absolutely need to significantly ramp up the number of tests.
You said that you told your staff to slow the testing down to improve the numbers. Did you ask to slow it down?
It was a comment that he made and Jeff. I don't kid. Let me just tell you, let me make it.
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Chris Pappas, who's also running for the Senate seat in New Hampshire. Congressman Pappas, first off, welcome to the Midas Touch Network. Your first time on the network. Hopefully we get you back again. What do you make of all of that, though? Trump's attack on the truth, on facts.
Well, thanks. It's great to be on with you. And we know how estranged Donald Trump is from the truth. And the fact is his administration isn't interested in data. They're not interested in science. They're only interested in power and making life more chaotic for Americans all across our country. And that's what they're doing. I was talking with folks that had contracts with the Department of Education recently. And they were telling me how the Department of Ed has ceased the collection of data. So just putting on a blindfold, not wanting to know what's going on in education across our country, not wanting to know how our kids are doing and where the gaps exist. They fired individuals that have been working in this space for decades and decades that have very specialized expertise into how our education systems work. and how best we can approach improving our schools for the future.
So this is a full out assault, not just on government, but really on our ability as a country and as communities to solve problems, to know where the challenges lie and to know how best to address them collectively moving forward. So it's a deeply chilling moment, I think, for our democracy and the ability of our government to work for everyday Americans
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