Trump funding order 'cruelty,' 'lawlessness' and 'a heist,' says top Democrat

The Manila Times

Trump funding order 'cruelty,' 'lawlessness' and 'a heist,' says top Democrat  "This is cruelty, this is lawlessness, this is a heist done on a national scale. No matter how much he may believe he does, the president does not have the authority to ignore the law," says the US Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer on a pause on US federal assistance such as grants and loans.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #donaldtrump  #heist

Transcript

00:00This is cruelty. This is lawlessness. This is a heist done on a national scale.

00:08No matter how much he may believe he does, the president does not have the authority to ignore

00:14the law, and we're going to fight this in every way that we can. In our states, we've talked to

00:20people, every one of us. People are scrambling to figure out what it means to them. We're getting

00:25panic calls. How are people going to make mortgage payments? How are small businesses

00:31going to keep their staff if their federal funding is shut off? Virtually any organization, school,

00:40state, police office, county, town, or community depends on federal grant money to run its

00:46day-to-day operations, and they're all now in danger. The blast radius of this terrible decision

00:53is virtually limitless, and its impact will be felt over and over again. It's not going to hit

00:59each American family in one way. It's going to hit them in multiple ways. The only people who

01:03might be immune to this are the ultra, ultra wealthy who they want to give a tax break to.

01:10The Trump administration is robbing Peter to pay the billionaires. American families make

01:16no mistake about it. The money being taken from them will be spent, but not on them.

01:23Instead of going to support for your community, it's going to the ultra wealthy and the megacorporations.

Category

Transcript

Recommended