During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about Republican lawmakers supporting President Trump's tariffs.
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00:00But, Donald Trump has not acted alone.
00:06Republicans in the Senate and the House own his mess too.
00:11It's not just that Republicans are silent.
00:14They are complicit in Donald Trump's failures.
00:17Last night, Senate Republicans had a chance
00:20to stop Donald Trump's tariffs here on the Senate floor.
00:23They said no.
00:25They chose to side with the tariffs instead.
00:28They chose to side with high prices for Americans,
00:33$4,000 more a year.
00:36They chose to side with Donald Trump over siding
00:41with the American consumer,
00:43who's paying more than $4,000 a year.
00:46So Republicans now own Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:49Let me repeat, Republicans own Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:53Don't complain about them.
00:55Don't go knocking at the White House door
00:57and saying get rid of them.
01:00You're going along and you voted to go along.
01:03If Republicans wanted to stop these tariffs,
01:06they certainly could.
01:07They have the power.
01:09Many of them know privately it's the right thing to do.
01:12But they're too scared to cross Donald Trump.
01:15So instead of siding with the American consumer,
01:17they side with him and enable his destructive behavior.
01:22But it's not just tariffs, oh no.
01:25Republicans are behind every failure of Donald Trump.
01:28They are his enablers, his collaborators, his co-conspirators.
01:33We all know they could undo Trump's failing policies if they wanted to.
01:37But they sit on their hands and in so many cases are complicit.
01:42Republicans are complicit in Donald Trump's push for tax cuts for billionaires.
01:48They're complicit in putting Medicaid funding on the chopping block.
01:52They're complicit in adding $52 trillion to the national debt.
01:56And they're complicit as Doge sabotages the Social Security Administration.
02:04They're complicit in the leadership failures at the Pentagon.
02:07And they'll be complicit should the economy slip into a wholly unnecessary recession, God forbid.
02:13In just 100 days of Donald Trump, polls show Americans are getting fed up.
02:19They're fed up with the chaos.
02:21They're fed up with the lawlessness.
02:23And they're fed up with Donald Trump siding with the special few over them.
02:28And the longer the Republicans enable Donald Trump's reckless behavior,
02:32the American people are going to get fed up with Republican majorities as well.