On Friday, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) released a video to social media to respond to Trump's military parade.
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00:00On Saturday, Trump is going to conduct a parade for himself. It's going to cost you, the taxpayer,
00:05up to $45 million. And it's the kind of thing that autocrats across the planet do. They throw
00:11parades with their own military on their own behalf on their birthday. It's really wild stuff.
00:17But the thing I want you to do is focus on the bill that they are trying to pass. This parade
00:23is for the purpose of distracting the public from the most unpopular bill that I've ever seen
00:28since I entered the United States Senate. They're going to cut Medicaid for 16 million people,
00:33throw them off of health care. They're going to cut nutritional assistance. The average
00:38nutritional assistance amount per person per day is six bucks. And they think they're going to find
00:43savings there and use the money that they saved to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
00:49Here's the good news. People who know about this bill hate it. The bad news is that one third of
00:55Americans don't know enough about this bill to form an opinion. So it's on all of us
01:02to make sure 100% of the public knows about this bill. And then we can kill their signature
01:07policy priority, which is to rip you off and take the money that they found from ripping
01:13you off and give it to the wealthiest people who have ever walked the planet.