Chuck Schumer Calls On John Thune & Mike Johnson To 'Stand Up To Donald Trump' On Tariffs Or Risk Recession

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calls on Republican Congressional leaders to stand up to President Trump on tariffs.

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00:00good I'm glad you did okay I'm joined with Senator Kaine couldn't make it

00:10because we're running a little late but Senator Wyden and Warnock are joining

00:14with me against the Senate Republicans war on American families last week

00:21Donald Trump poured gasoline on our global economy and lit a match with his

00:27devastating trade war President Trump introduced tariffs on so-called

00:32Liberation Day but the only thing so far that Americans have been liberated from

00:37is economic stability as everyone knows right now the nation is in tariff chaos

00:44no one really knows what's going on especially the president these tariffs are

00:51self-inflicted catastrophe on the United States the market continues to teeter

00:57your retirement accounts are in a whiplash a report by JP Morgan and now

01:03they're normally a state banker but you know what the title of their report was

01:07there will be blood and it warned that quote these policies if sustained would

01:14likely push the US and possibly the global economy into a recession this year they

01:20continued with a warning raising the risk of recession this year to 60 percent the

01:27stock market's all over the place but what really is bothering the American

01:31people is the potential rise the dramatic rise in costs what they pay for food for

01:37medicine for clothing for housing for cars for gas the fact that in a recession it's

01:43harder to get a job advance in your job and it's harder to and it's more likely you'll be laid off

01:49it's more likely you'll pay for more so the American people are focused on how it will affect them in

01:56their pocketbook whether they own stocks or not the choice in front of leader Thune and

02:02Speaker Johnson is simple are they going to choose Donald Trump or are they going to

02:07choose American families stand up to Donald Trump or watch him walk us directly into a recession and

02:16so far they're not standing up Congress must take action before Donald Trump causes even more damage to

02:24the economy last week the Senate took the first step past Senator Cain's resolution that would roll back

02:31tariffs on Canada to ease some pain from American families Speaker Johnson must allow the

02:38House to vote on that bipartisan legislation that would reverse the sentless senseless

02:43tariffs in our longtime ally Canada Senate Democrats are trying to do more to help

02:49families worried about their costs their retirements economic chaos so that's why I

02:55was so deeply disappointed last Friday when every single Republican rejected in my measure to stop any

03:03tariffs since January 20th if prices for groceries and medicines and other essential goods went up

03:09they every one of them voted no and the voters are realizing that let me repeat Republicans had the

03:19chance to stop this pain for American families and every single one voted no but we

03:25won't be deterred in fighting for Americans that's why today I'm proud to be joining Senators Wyden Kane

03:32Warnock and others to introduce another resolution that would halt all of Trump's tariffs the Senate

03:40has the power and the authority to stop this madness we have a duty to act in a bipartisan way to repeal these

03:47tariffs we have the ability to put it on the floor and make them vote on it like Senator Kane did in his

03:53resolution same with Senator Wyden's and now let me call on him Senator Wyden

Chuck Schumer Calls On John Thune & Mike Johnson To 'Stand Up To Donald Trump' On Tariffs Or Risk Recession

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