Senate and House Democrats Hold News Conference on the First 100 Days of the Trump Administration

TIME

Democrats gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol denouncing the president’s agenda during his first 100 days in office and blamed Republicans in Congress.

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00:00Donald Trump's first 100 days can be defined by one big F word, failure.

00:13Failure on the economy.

00:17Failure on lowering costs.

00:20Failure on tariffs.

00:23Failure on foreign policy.

00:26Failure on preserving democracy.

00:29Failure on helping middle-class families.

00:33On tariffs, what a failure.

00:36It's a policy that's in total chaos.

00:38One day he says one thing, one day he says another thing.

00:41Maybe this country has tariffs, maybe this country won't.

00:45Even his policy advisors are at a loss to explain what he's doing.

00:49And as a result, instead of all of us in the world going after China,

00:57China now has allies all over the world going after us.

01:02And who is complicit in all of this?

01:05Who?

01:05The Republicans in the House and Senate are co-conspirators.

01:11They are complicit.

01:12They are aiding and abetting all of Donald Trump's failures.

01:19Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have been a disaster.

01:25Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are crashing the economy in real time,

01:32raising costs on hard-working American taxpayers and driving us toward a painful recession.

01:43This is not Joe Biden's economy, Donald.

01:48It is your economy.

01:50It is the Trump economy.

01:52It is a failed economy.

01:55And the American people know it.

01:58The House and the Senate are separate and co-equal branches of government.

02:03We don't work for Donald Trump.

02:07We don't work for Elon Musk.

02:09We don't work for far-right extremists.

02:12We work for the American people.

02:14And it's time for you to start acting like it or step out of the way.

02:19And it's time for you to start acting like it or step out of the way.

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