Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Condemning President Trump’s Focus On A New Gilded Ballroom While Americans Are Struggling With Rising Costs
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor condemning President Trump for demanding $1 billion in taxpayer funds for his gilded ballroom while Americans are struggling with rising costs and wholesale inflation is at an all-time high of 6%. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks which can also be viewed here:
Yesterday, Donald Trump told a reporter: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think of anyone.”
I repeat: Donald Trump actually said this, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.”
Can you believe it? You wouldn’t believe it coming from any other president, but sadly from this president it smacks of reality. He says almost anything and he doesn’t care.
Clearly Donald Trump doesn’t care about Americans’ financial situation considering that just this morning, we saw wholesale inflation skyrocket to six percent – the highest it’s been since December 2022. Wholesale inflation, 6%? As those costs trickle down to Americans, Americans are going to be paying more and more and more. And they hate it.
Now, what is Trump thinking about instead? Himself, especially his new ballroom.
At a time when 77 percent – that’s 77 percent – of Americans say Donald Trump’s policies have increased their cost of living, Trump and the Senate GOP try to force through a bill that would spend a billion taxpayer dollars on a gilded ballroom and not one penny on bringing down Americans’ costs.
Trump may be trying to build a ballroom, but clearly he is living in the theater of the absurd.
Really? Do Americans want a ballroom when wholesale inflation just hit 6 percent – the highest level in four years?
Do Americans want a ballroom when food prices just went up more in April than in any month in nearly four years?
Do Americans want a ballroom when the cost of a gallon of gas has increased a dollar and a half since March?
Of course not.
I would say Trump has completely lost touch with the American people, but that would assume that Trump was ever in touch with the American people to begin with, and on this issue he sure as heck isn’t.
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