Shontel Brown: Banner Of Trump's Face 'Would Even Make Kim Jong-Un Blush'

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During a speech to the House floor on Tuesday, Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) spoke about President Trump's new banner on the Department of Labor building in Washington D.C..

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00:00Thank you, Madam Speaker. I've just come back from our district work period in Northeast Ohio,

00:12and let me tell you, there is nothing better than being home, being in our churches, in our union

00:18halls, and in our community centers, listening to the people I serve. And let me tell you what I

00:23heard. It was crystal clear, people are getting squeezed. Groceries, a very old-fashioned word,

00:32too expensive. Gas, too expensive. Housing, way too expensive. And Trump's chaos and corruption

00:40are making it all worse. I heard how tariffs are jacking up prices, crushing small businesses,

00:46and threatening workers. I heard how the one big ugly bill is about to make utility bills

00:53student loans, and grocery costs skyrocket, all to give the richest Americans more tax breaks.

01:01I heard how the president's cancellation of community safety funding will make our neighborhoods

01:06less safe. And I heard how his attacks on unions at the VA and FEMA will ripple right into the private

01:13sector, hurting men and working men and women everywhere. And now, Donald Trump's latest stunt,

01:20firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Illegal, reckless, a straight-up power grab designed to give

01:29him control of the Fed and raise costs for families. See, an independent Federal Reserve is the bedrock of

01:35American prosperity. Undermine it, end retirement savings, vanish, mortgage rates climb, and life gets more

01:43expensive for everyone. But, Madam Speaker, this is bigger than economics. This is about freedom.

01:48Take a look around our country. We have military patrols in American cities, political investigations

01:55of the president's critics, mass detentions without due process, federal agents hidden behind masks, museums

02:05ordered to rewrite history, the government bullying private companies and universities, banners of the

02:13president's face that would even make Kim Jong-un blush. This is a toxic agenda, and the president

02:20knows it. That's why he's changing the rules in the middle of the game. Need I remind you, four years

02:25ago, he demanded Georgia find him votes. Now he's demanding red states find him more seats in Congress.

02:33All this for what? So Donald Trump can enrich himself and his billionaire allies while everyday,

02:38hardworking Americans pay the bill. So I just have to ask, Madam Speaker, where are the so-called

02:44constitutional conservatives? Will even one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle find the

02:49courage to stand up? Have they not learned that cowering before this man only works until he decides

02:56you're expendable? And it may be easy to look away when people are without wealth or status when they

03:03suffer, or when people you don't like are targeted, fired, or erased. It may be easy when the victims

03:09live in places like Cleveland, Chicago, or Washington. But be clear, it never ends there. As a black woman,

03:17I know who the cruel and oppressive executive orders and policies punish first. But I also know this,

03:24once it starts, everyone is punished. So this is the moment to defend our economy, to defend our

03:32our freedoms and our elections. Madam Speaker, let me close with this. Last week, President Trump said,

03:41I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the President of the United States. He said it,

03:47laid it on the table, in plain sight for all of us to see. He wants no checks, no balances, not from the

03:55courts, not from Congress, not from the voters. It's time to wake up America before it's too late.

04:02Thanks a lot.

04:08Yes, God bless God.

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