U.S. Senator Ed Markey is calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, while also demanding major cuts to the U.S. defense budget and the abolition of ICE.
Markey delivered a fiery attack on Trump, declaring that “we need to impeach Donald Trump now” and arguing that federal spending priorities must change.
The remarks come amid an intense political battle over Trump’s presidency, defense spending, immigration enforcement and ICE.
Watch the full report for Ed Markey’s latest comments, his call for Trump’s impeachment, his criticism of defense spending and his demand to abolish ICE.
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Markey delivered a fiery attack on Trump, declaring that “we need to impeach Donald Trump now” and arguing that federal spending priorities must change.
The remarks come amid an intense political battle over Trump’s presidency, defense spending, immigration enforcement and ICE.
Watch the full report for Ed Markey’s latest comments, his call for Trump’s impeachment, his criticism of defense spending and his demand to abolish ICE.
#EdMarkey #Markey #DonaldTrump #Trump #ImpeachTrump #TrumpImpeachment #ICE #AbolishICE #DefenseSpending #USPolitics #TrumpNews #Democrats #PoliticalNews #BreakingNews #TrumpAdministration
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00:00And we need to impeach Donald Trump now.
00:14I have never been one who is afraid to take the tough votes.
00:18Even when I was only one of a handful of members of Congress to stand up to leadership.
00:26Bernie and Elizabeth and I, we were just three of eleven voting two years ago to cut off.
00:35Are you ready to stand up and to reclaim our democracy?
00:41And ladies and gentlemen, what an afternoon, huh?
00:47In Dorchester, we have gathered with us today
00:53the all-time, all-star team for progressivism, for fighting for the people.
01:03And I can't thank all of you enough for being here today.
01:08And Bernie Sanders, the titan, the titan of progressivism,
01:19who has joined us here today for the final three days of this campaign.
01:28And I'm so honored to have Bernie in here at this critical juncture in the campaign,
01:36as people are making up their minds at the very end.
01:40And Bernie and I, we serve on the Health, Education, and Labor Committee.
01:53And when we have our incredible landslide in this November,
02:00Bernie will become the chairman of health and education and labor and pensions for our country.
02:12He's going to be a one-man revolution.
02:16And Elizabeth Warren, just incredible.
02:24And she single-handedly worked defying all of the odds
02:35in order to pass the single most important housing bill in 30 years in our nation.
02:46In our nation.
02:49That's Elizabeth Warren.
02:52And when we win, when we win, in the first week of November,
02:59Elizabeth Warren will be the chair of the Banking and Housing Committee for the United States Senate.
03:15Aiyana Presley.
03:17Aiyana Presley.
03:20My partner in the United States House of Representatives.
03:25When people walk in to see how to vote up on the board,
03:29people look for Aiyana's name.
03:32Because Aiyana is true north.
03:36Aiyana is what people look for to see what is the right vote,
03:43even if they don't have the courage to cast the right vote.
03:47They know that that is what Aiyana is doing.
03:51And it could be on Haitian TPS.
03:53It can be on Fair Free Transit.
03:56It can be on any issue of equity.
04:00That is who our Congresswoman, Aiyana Presley, stands for every single day.
04:14Andrea Campbell.
04:19Our Attorney General suing Trump almost every day for his corruption,
04:28for his corruption, partnering with big oil, big gas, insurance companies, health care companies,
04:34you name it, Andrea is suing and winning on our behalf.
04:44And this week, this week, Andrea won an historic decision against Mehta, against Mark Zuckerberg.
05:06And I'm very proud she used my law, the Child Online Privacy Protection Act, as the basis for the case.
05:18She took my law and then sued and won.
05:27That is the partnership which we have.
05:30And to Tyler, thank you for your incredible leadership, leading the trans movement, the Christmas Street Project.
05:43How about Megan? Young Democrats, huh? Young Democrats, the future.
05:53And we are right here, we are right here at 103, the electricians.
06:02My father was the vice president of an electrician's union.
06:06And so, Lou Antonellis, 103, thank you all.
06:11Thank you for what you do every single day.
06:14Standing up, Lou.
06:16Standing up for the working people of the Commonwealth, of the nation, every single day.
06:23Thank you all for everything that you do it.
06:26Because this is the greatest gathering of progressive voices on one stage.
06:33Our progressive palooza.
06:36That's what we have put together.
06:38And they are all here, all assembled, because we're coming down to a referendum here in Massachusetts
06:45on who should be the senator for the next six years on the floor of the Senate partnering with Elizabeth
06:51Warren and Bernie Sanders every single day.
06:54We're coming down.
06:58And I think we all want to say it together.
07:02Let's say it, Massachusetts.
07:03Power to the people.
07:05Power to the people.
07:09So, are you ready to win?
07:11Are you ready to put the power back into the hands of the people?
07:18Because the country is looking to us in Massachusetts.
07:22We are the revolutionary state.
07:25The American Revolution, 250 years ago, it started here.
07:30The abolitionist movement, it started here.
07:34The suffragette movement, it started here.
07:38The same-sex marriage movement, it started here.
07:44It's called Obamacare, but it started here.
07:49That is who we are.
07:51We are the revolutionaries.
07:53Thank you, revolutionaries, for joining today in this final, final get out the vote, because we always lead the way.
08:03And this election is going to define the lives of our children and grandchildren for generations to come, because we
08:13have a choice to make.
08:15The three richest men in all of America have the wealth of 50% of our population.
08:24That is a rigged system.
08:27And we see the results.
08:29Electricity prices are up.
08:32Health care costs are up.
08:35Gasoline prices are up.
08:37Grocery costs are up, up, up.
08:40All the while, Medicare, slashed.
08:45SNAP food assistance, slashed.
08:48Educational programs for kids, slashed.
08:52Environmental justice programs, slashed.
08:55So that's what this election is all about.
08:58Everything is on the table.
09:00And all those programs slashed in order to give $1.4 trillion to the richest people in our country in
09:10tax breaks who do not need those tax breaks.
09:12But sadly, Donald Trump and the Fox News cabinet are taking full advantage of all of what is broken in
09:24our political system.
09:25And they're doing it for themselves.
09:27They're doing it for the rich and powerful.
09:29They're making the rich already too rich, even richer.
09:34And they're taking it from those who need it the most.
09:38But there's a nostalgia for a time that never existed instead of the idealism which we need in order to
09:45fight for the programs that families need.
09:47For the poor, for the sick, for the elderly, for the disabled, for all of those who are under assault
09:54right now.
09:54But the past is just the memory.
09:56And their future is our hard reality that we must face.
10:01So are you ready to stand up and fight for all of those people who need all of those programs
10:07to be put in place to take on the rich and the powerful?
10:11So my opponent's campaign though, my opponent's campaign, the outside groups that support it have been fueled by dark money,
10:21by corporate special interests.
10:24There are millions flowing into this race on behalf of my opponent from a small group of private equity firms,
10:36Wall Street executives, who are seeking to steal this election.
10:42They are not grassroots supporters contributing $5, $10, $25 like the people in this room.
10:51It is some of this country's wealthiest financial players who are trying to buy this seat.
10:59And why are they trying to buy it?
11:00Because they know I have never been for sale.
11:16So here's what the bosses are never going to understand.
11:19Their money cannot defeat our movement.
11:24The many will beat the money every single time.
11:36And while they're lining their pockets, we are organizing.
11:42That's why we're here in a labor hall.
11:45Thank you, Lou.
11:47While they sit in their penthouse boardrooms, we are in the streets building people power for this last three days.
11:57The Trump administration has made it crystal clear what its priorities are.
12:03And here's a hint.
12:05You aren't on their list of priorities.
12:10It is time that we say no to corruption.
12:12No to politics of self-enrichment.
12:16Trump is serving up an all-you-can-eat corruption buffet for himself,
12:22for his children, for his cronies, for his corporations.
12:27And the revolution is coming for him and his cronies.
12:41We need to ban stock trading by Trump and by members of the United States Congress.
12:52Politicians should be answering to you and not to their stock portfolios as they are voting on the floor of
13:01Congress.
13:02Which brings us to the fundamental question at the heart of every single debate in Washington.
13:08Whose side are you on?
13:11And for me, the answer is easy.
13:15I have always stood with you.
13:16I have always stood with working people in every corner of our commonwealth.
13:21And I can tell you that for every one of the issues being debated right now,
13:25on every one of those issues, there's one thing that separates us from them.
13:29On every one of those issues, we are right and they are wrong.
13:42We need affordable housing and fair, free transit.
13:47We need free public college and gun-free schools.
13:54We need to make NRA stand for not relevant anymore in American politics.
14:02We need universal childcare.
14:05We need Medicare for all.
14:11When I introduced the Green New Deal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
14:20they called it socialism.
14:24Well, what do you call a hundred years of tax breaks for the oil, gas and coal industry?
14:32I call that socialism.
14:34And all we're saying is, give us some of that socialism for wind and solar
14:40and all electric vehicles and battery storage technologies,
14:43and we will bury the fossil fuel industry.
14:49We'll have lower prices, lower emissions, and union jobs
14:55that built the new energy infrastructure of the 21st century.
15:00That is what this election is all about.
15:03And they are saying that they don't believe that climate change is an existential threat
15:12to their business model.
15:14To the planet.
15:14We just saw another episode in Nepal.
15:17You know what they're really afraid of though?
15:20They know our movement, the Green New Deal, is an existential threat to their business model.
15:25Okay?
15:26That we are going to destroy their business model.
15:30Because right here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right.
15:35When hateful and opportunistic politicians want to erase the LGBTQ plus community,
15:46we know it is our job to embrace you.
15:51It is our job to protect you.
15:53It is our job to love you.
15:55It is not a job of a senator from Massachusetts to demonize you.
16:02And that is why we stand with the trans community.
16:09We need to protect trans kids.
16:13We will not let anyone, Republican or Democratic member of Congress, tell you otherwise.
16:21We need to pass my trans bill of rights.
16:34And we need to end these wars that are endless.
16:41We need to slash the defense budget.
16:45And we need to impeach Donald Trump now.
17:00I have never been one who is afraid to take the tough votes.
17:04Even when I was only one of a handful of members of Congress to stand up to leadership, Bernie and
17:14Elizabeth and I, we were just three of 11 voting two years ago to cut off aid to Israel for
17:221,000-pound bombs being used in Gaza.
17:29When Congress, when Congress first debated the creation of ICE, I voted no on the creation of ICE because I
17:39could see, I could see the seeds of authoritarianism.
17:43And now we know that our citizens, our immigrant friends are being terrorized on the streets of Massachusetts.
17:51They are being terrorized every single day, which is why it is critical that we abolish ICE now.
18:05I have voted against more of Donald Trump's nominees and his agenda than any other member of the United States
18:14Senate.
18:15And I'm going to keep doing that.
18:18But fighting, fighting Donald Trump is not enough.
18:24We also need a bold transformational agenda that puts people ahead of profits.
18:32And that starts with taking back the House and taking back the Senate in November.
18:37A big blue wave is coming.
18:41And we have to do everything we can to create a democratic majority in Congress.
18:47We need to create a progressive majority in the United States Congress.
18:54And Donald Trump, he wants to have the SAVE Act passed, you know, which means compromising democracy,
19:02making it harder for married women to vote, harder for minorities to vote, harder for young people to vote.
19:09That's his plan.
19:10He says he's going to save democracy.
19:12No, he's going to undermine democracy.
19:15They're coming with ICE.
19:17They're coming with the Army and the Marines.
19:19And we have to be ready to respond.
19:22We have to be ready to take them on at the ballot box, to take them on in the courts,
19:28and to take them on in the streets if it is necessary this fall to stand up and to fight
19:36for our democracy.
19:38Because it's not the SAVE Act.
19:40It's the Save Their Asses Act.
19:43Because people are coming for them at the polls this year.
19:47And we just can't agonize.
19:50We have to organize.
19:53Because grassroots activism will always beat a well-financed lie.
20:01And that's what I do every single day with Bernie and Elizabeth and Ayanna in the United States Congress,
20:09with Andrea here, with all of our great partners.
20:13These are the champions.
20:15The champions who are going to work for a livable wage, collective bargaining and workers' rights,
20:21overturning Citizens United, abolishing the filibuster, having legislation that guarantees that paraprofessionals in our school system get paid and have
20:34the healthcare which they need.
20:36That's the progressive agenda for our country.
20:39That's what's at stake in this election.
20:43Dissent.
20:44Dissent.
20:45Dissent can happen anywhere.
20:47Power can be created everywhere.
20:51So let's take it to the streets.
20:54Marshall your neighbors.
20:55Sit in.
20:56Protest.
20:57Withhold your labor.
20:59But the movement does not end in the streets.
21:02It has to go all the way to the ballot box.
21:05And in this Senate race, you have a fundamental choice to make.
21:09A choice between progressive values or the status quo.
21:14Because from our perspective, the age of incrementalism is over.
21:20We have to make a choice between a record of results or rebranded ambition in this race.
21:28A choice between conviction and convenience.
21:32A choice between the politics of transformation or the politics of triangulation.
21:39I don't trade stocks.
21:40I don't take corporate PAC money.
21:42I don't take money from fossil fuel companies.
21:44I haven't made a dime off of my public service.
21:47I take on the public interest for you.
21:51I refuse to bow to corporate power.
21:54I never apologize for my Massachusetts values.
21:57The real change our country needs won't come from corporations.
22:02It won't come from billionaire CEOs or the corrupt politicians who do their bidding.
22:07It will come from those willing to fight every single day.
22:15I was born in Malden.
22:18I was born in Malden.
22:20I was raised in Malden.
22:24I live in Malden today.
22:26I live in Malden two blocks from where my immigrant grandparents got off the boat.
22:33When my grandmother died, five children.
22:36My mother had to be the single mom to the three younger kids even though she was senior class president.
22:42That was the system in the old days.
22:44One of the girls doesn't get to go to college.
22:47One of the girls doesn't get to go anywhere.
22:49Because there weren't programs to help those families.
22:53My father grew up in Lawrence on the first floor of a triple decker in Lawrence at 88 Phillip Street.
23:01They lived in the shadow of the mills.
23:04My father became a truck driver.
23:07Married my mother in Malden.
23:10I knocked on that door at 88 Phillip Street to see who lives there now.
23:15Because my father, he had some opportunities.
23:29And out onto the steps came a Dominican family with their children.
23:44And the accents were different, but the aspirations the same for that Dominican family as for the Markey family.
23:51And Donald Trump, Donald Trump every day is trying to slash the education programs, slash the healthcare programs, slash the
24:03programs that provided protection against discrimination that was built into the law that made it possible for me as a
24:11boy in that house growing up on the porch in Malden to dream my dreams.
24:16To dream about who I could be, to dream about who I could be, to dream about what was possible.
24:22And I was given a strong floor and an unlimited ceiling as so many of you here today were.
24:30And what Donald Trump is doing every single day is seeking to slash all of those programs for all of
24:40the boys and girls on every porch all across Massachusetts,
24:45all across our country, because they are brown, because they are black, because they are immigrant, because they are LGBT,
24:55because they are poor.
24:57And you know what Donald Trump does?
24:59Donald Trump is bringing out the Malden in me every single day.
25:11Because if Donald Trump wants a fight, I'm ready to give him that fight.
25:17I'm ready to be your voice, your vote, your fighter on the floor of the United States Senate every single
25:25day to fight for what you believe.
25:28So I'm asking you today, will you fight to take back this country?
25:32Yes!
25:33Will you fight against Trump corruption?
25:36Yes!
25:36Will you fight for Medicare for all?
25:39Yes!
25:40Will you fight for our TPS holders and refugees?
25:45Yes!
25:45Will you fight for abortion rights and reproductive freedom?
25:50Now is the time, this is the place, this is the time that you in Massachusetts as the revolutionaries get
25:59once again the opportunity to stand up and send a message to this country.
26:05And Tuesday is that day.
26:08I ask for your help.
26:10I'm Ed Markey and I humbly ask for your support and your vote on Tuesday.
26:19Thank you all so, so much for everything that you're doing.