Senator Baldwin Calls Out Trump’s Disastrous Shutdown
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Donald Trump continues to spiral out of control as his messaging on this shutdown is all over the place because he and Maga Mike Johnson and Senator Thune and the Republicans are responsible for it because they want to take away people's health care. It's that simple. So Donald Trump started with posting like sombreros and weird AI, and then he moved on to just kind of threatening, I'm going to inflict pain. What an opportunity. Then yesterday, he was pretending that he was actually engaged in negotiations that weren't taking place because he and Maga Mike have ordered Republicans not even to talk to Democrats, yet alone negotiate. And now he's back to the threatening. We will destroy the lives of federal workers.
We will inflict pain, but our budget will be balanced, he says. Oh, it will be balanced. This is what he said from the Oval Office. Let's play it.
I'll be able to tell you that in four or five days if this keeps going on. If this keeps going on, it'll be substantial. And a lot of those jobs will never come back. But you're going to have a lot closer to a balanced budget, actually.
I just have to also make the observation that he looks utterly ridiculous in there. I mean, the gold everywhere. It looks cheesy. It looks gross. Everything our country should be against in poor taste as he's talking about inflicting pain on the American people. He's running record deficit spending, hundreds of billions of dollars on masked agents, disappearing human beings in this country into concentration camps and all of his other despicable stunts. Then Donald Trump also talks about, in response to a reporter saying, well, why are you saying that you won't even give government workers their back pay if the shutdown ends? Why are you doing this? Here, play this clip.
Why do you say some federal workers should not get their back pay? Why do you say some?
Well, you're going to have to figure that out, okay? Ask the Democrats that question.
Mr. President, just to follow up there, I mean, the law says that when the government reopens, that workers will receive their back pay. So are you going to define the law there?
I follow the law, and what the law says is correct, and I follow the law.
Mr. President. He's all over the place. And then he calls the shutdown, quote, a kamikaze attack. You want to know the truth? It's a kamikaze attack. Kamikaze attack? Here, play this clip.
By the way, I'm not sure we would have even had a country. And now we have the most successful country in the world. Brian?
Yes, sir. What is your message to Democrats ahead of a next vote to open up the government? The American people are saying, open the damn government. What's your message to them right now?
Well, they're the ones that started it. They're the ones that have it. And it's almost like a kamikaze attack by them. You want to know the truth? This is like a kamikaze attack. They...
That's their messaging, a kamikaze attack. By the way, if you want to know what a clown show it's in there, that was Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend asking the questions. Let's bring in Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin of the great state of Wisconsin. So that's what was going on in the Oval Office. Let me show you what's going on in the United States of America. We've been tracking at the Midas Touch Network just how much people's monthly premiums are going to be going up if the Affordable Care Act— Tax credits are not extended. You took a look at Maga Mike Johnson's district. A couple earning $82,000 a year paying $541 a month will soon be paying $2,180 a month. And they will basically be going medically bankrupt because how could someone $82,000 a year pay over $24,000 a year in health care premiums without the subsidy?
So what's going on, Senator? What's going on out there?
Yeah, well, as we speak, people are getting those notices in the mail or online about what their premiums are going to be next year. And then when you take away this premium tax credit that's going to expire, there are so many millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites who will
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