Democratic senator Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said Sunday that he dismissed with the Democratic Response in the Chamber to the broad speech of President Donald Trump to Congress last week.
“I think that the lack of a coordinated response in the state of the Union was a mistake, and, frankly, the approach of where it should have been, which is about the fact that the president spoke for an hour and 40 minutes and had nothing to say about what he would do to reduce the costs of US families that observed that long direction at the kitchen table, with the hope that he would give him a new home to reduce a new home. Rental rental for rent or health care, health care “, which will help a new home or the payment of rent for rent or health care”, “, which helped them to pay for health care or child”, “, which would help them pay a new home or a payment to pay for rent or care for rent of rent or health care” The rent or care of rental of rent or health care “,” “week.”
Democratic legislators participated in several protests during Trump’s speech. Some female members of Congress carried strong pink to show resistance. Other Democratic members had signs that called Elon Musk. Some decided to boycott the speech or leave early.
Schiff refuted the recent proposal of the Democratic strategist James Carville in an opinion article of the New York Times that the Democrats should “turn around and play dead” and wait for Republicans “to crumble for their own weight”, with the Senator of California saying that the correct approach focuses on “the economic well -being of the Americans.”
“We need to have our own broad and bold agenda … to really answer the central question that, if you are working hard in the United States, can you earn a good life?” Schiff said. “We need to advance policies and make the arguments about what we have to offer, not simply go back and leave them collapse of our own corrupt weight. We need to effectively use litigation as we are. We need to effectively use communication to speak with new people as we are.”
Schiff also expressed frustration and disapproval of the Trump cervical whistling tariffs.
Trump imposed a 25% tariff on the goods from Canada or Mexico on Tuesday. The next day, he issued a one -month delay for auto parts. For Friday, Trump signed an executive order that extended the delay to all products under the agreement of the United States-Canadá, USMCA, which is a free trade agreement signed during Trump’s first mandate. Approximately half of Mexican imports are under the USMCA and approximately 38% of Canada’s imports are under the agreement.
Schiff said that Democrats have to begin responding to Trump’s tariffs and economic policies more effectively.
“This is deeply destructive, what they are doing,” he said. “We need to present that case to the American people, because they will feel it. But, you know, take off the eye of the ball, it is very dangerous, so we focus on what matters most to the Americans. Let’s make all the destructive damages they are doing with you know, the cutting of services, the cutting of Medicaid and what that will mean to increase the health costs and less access for people.”
