00:00Thank you. I'm curious, in these first hundred days, how does Democratic leadership feel like Trump's presidency has shaped the Democratic Party?
00:09And how far into the soul-searching process is the party?
00:14Our party is focused. And we're focused on our Members House.
00:19Democratic leadership is focused on 213 members of our caucus, but with the two vacancies, taking our cues from our members and the focus that they have is, as the Vice Chair mentioned, of their districts and the experiences.
00:36The unease, the uncertainty, the burden that local farmers and businesses face in New York and Maryland, the difficult decisions that they're having to make,
00:47that guides our caucus. We feel that uncertainty, the uncertainty of seniors asking us in town halls whether Social Security is going to be there for them,
00:58whether Donald Trump and House Republicans are going to make life more unaffordable for them and their kids and their grandkids.
01:06Those are the questions, and that is our focus.
01:09So we have the leadership team in place. Leader Jeffries is doing an amazing job, guided by the focus of our members and using our committees to push back against these terrible policies.
01:22We're going to continue that work ahead.
01:25But Donald Trump is also, I would say, a galvanizing force.
01:29It's something that unites us because of how dangerous and careless he acts using the highest office in the land.
01:41Democrats are trying to help the American people not be hurt by Trump's harmful policies.
01:48I was talking to a small business owner. She makes plush toys.
01:52They're actually patriotic plush toys that represent different states and so on.
01:57And she had her shipment, they're made in China, and so the shipment was underwater, and then tariffs come in.
02:06And now all of a sudden she has to pay $40,000, $50,000 when they arrive in the United States.
02:12And those costs will pass on to consumers, but she's now come up with all of a sudden $40,000, $50,000 she never had before.
02:20And she would love to be able to make these toys in the United States, but guess what?
02:23She can't even get the materials here because America doesn't make the materials for plush toys.
02:29So you have a whole bunch of companies who, when they make products, they have all sorts of different components.
02:35And the White House is just a really stupid view of this.
02:37You can't just reshore something.
02:40If that product relies on all these raw materials from other countries, it gets very, very complicated.
02:46They have this very simplistic version that you can just reshore these companies, but you can't do that.
02:51And because you can't do that, what's going to end up happening is just going to harm American companies and American consumers.
02:57And we just want the administration to get rid of these indiscriminate tariffs for rationality, backing the economy, and lower prices.
