Democrats Wake Up, Change Their Tune, And Promise To Fight Trump Tooth And Nail
Go for it Chuck--You are the big man
Democrats Wake Up, Change Their Tune, And Promise To Fight Trump Tooth And Nail
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By Jason Easley on Sun, Nov 20th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shifted away from the overly positive talk of working with Donald Trump by promising to fight Trump tooth and nail ..................
Transcript via ABC’s This Week:
RADDATZ: What’s the message?
SCHUMER: We shouldn’t just do a little thing about college, we should make college affordable for everybody and make sure that everyone gets out of college debt-free. We have to — we shouldn’t just say we’ll change the trade laws a little bit, we need dramatic change in the trade laws. We should close all of these loopholes, (INAUDIBLE) and other things.
Now many of these issues actually, Donald Trump supported in the campaign. ....................
RADDATZ: The Republicans now have both chambers of Congress, the presidency, the majority of statehouses and the majority of governors.
SCHUMER: Yes, I don’t…
RADDATZ: Isn’t that not a — isn’t that a mandate?
SCHUMER: Look, as you know, Democrats got a majority of the popular vote, Hillary did, so it’s not a mandate. And when he’s opposed to our values, .......................
For instance, we’re not going to let him repeal Dodd-Frank or the — the — the rules we put in place to limit Wall Street. They’re going to regret the day they tried to repeal the ACA.
So when we oppose Trump on values or if his presidency takes a dark, divisive turn, we’re going to do it tooth and nail.
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