00:00The Democratic Leader.
00:01Are we in a quorum? I ask unanimous consent. The quorum be dispensed with.
00:05Without objection.
00:06Well, Madam President, last week, the American people put Donald Trump and the GOP on blast.
00:16Americans povilized the Red Wall, and for good reason.
00:20Americans want a government that recognizes and responds to their needs, and Democrats are ready to deliver.
00:27However, we listened when families called out for relief from their back-breaking costs on health care, groceries, gasoline, electricity,
00:36and so many other essentials.
00:38Crucially, we ran candidates who could speak to their states about the issues that mattered most to their constituencies.
00:46And what did the other side do?
00:48Trump and the Republicans not only ignored the American people's concerns for cost, chaos, and corruption,
00:53they ignored it for two years, and they treated Americans' anguish with utter disdain and contempt, and made things even
01:02worse.
01:03Americans are sick of being told to suck it up, as they pay $4.50 for gasoline, because of a
01:11war they never wanted.
01:13Americans are tired of paying a fortune at the supermarket, while Donald Trump and his family made a fortune on
01:19the stock market.
01:20Americans are finished with forking over their tax dollars so Trump can cover Washington in gold.
01:28The American people gave our new Democratic majority our marching orders.
01:33Make their lives more affordable, their government more competent, and their capital less corrupt.
01:39Democrats are going to move forward to deliver results for Americans, with or without Republicans.
01:46Americans were clear about wanting to end Trump's war, stop his tariffs, lower health care costs,
01:51ban both members of Congress and the President from trading stocks, and so much more.
01:56And Democrats are going to deliver.
01:59We're going to spend every second of every day striving to prove ourselves worthy of Americans' trust.
02:05If Republicans learned their lesson last week, they ought to start listening to Americans.
02:10But I'm not holding my breath.
02:13They still seem to embrace Trump.
02:15If Trump and Republicans decide to spend the next two years standing in the way of the solutions Americans resoundedly
02:22voting for last week,
02:29Tuesday will look like a cakewalk compared to the election day of 2028.
02:35Elections have always been the strongest lever Americans have to counter a wannabe king.
02:41The American people used that power last week, and you better believe they will use it again in two years
02:47if Trump and the GOP keep showing them the same contempt and disdain.
02:53Now on the Pete Hegseth trial.
02:56Trump's disastrous war in Iran will go down as one of the greatest foreign policy fiascos in American history.
03:04The Senate needs to put Pete Hegseth on trial so we can remove him for his catastrophic failure in Iran.
03:14Americans are calling for an end to this war, a war they never asked for, and is costing them dearly
03:20every day.
03:21And Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's prosecution of this war could not be more shameful.
03:26More than eight months into this war, this administration continues it aimlessly and has yet to present any plan to
03:36bring our troops home.
03:38Hegseth waged this war illegally in open defiance of the Constitution and multiple war power resolutions this Congress passed to
03:47end the fighting.
03:50Hegseth couldn't care less about going to war without a formal declaration or authorization of military force, never mind its
04:00cost to the American people.
04:02Under Hegseth's orders, the Pentagon has shamefully covered up the number of American service members who have been killed and
04:09wounded in this aimless war.
04:12However, how despicable, despicable, covering up the sacrifices of our brave men and women in uniform.
04:19Instead of keeping our country and our service members safe, Hegseth has spent two years waging an ideological crusade against
04:26the Pentagon
04:27and purging some of our most experienced battle-tested military officers.
04:35Meanwhile, the American people still haven't received any answers from Hegseth on his unauthorized airstrikes against ships in the Caribbean
04:42and the East Pacific,
04:44despite evidence that civilians are among the casualties.
04:48Did Trump really expect anything less than disaster when he put a Fox News host in charge of the largest
04:54military in the world?
04:56America needs a serious Secretary of Defense right now, not a wannabe warlord.
05:03Hegseth must stand trial before the Senate.
05:08Finally, on Stephen Miller.
05:11Apparently, Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat last week.
05:15I cannot imagine a more incompetent, dangerous, and brutally nasty person to serve as the White House Chief of Staff
05:23than Stephen Miller.
05:25Last week, Americans called on Trump to stop driving our country off a cliff, but he just hit the accelerator
05:32with his appointment of Stephen Miller.
05:35Voters want change.
05:37Trump just promised something even worse than what they saw these last two years.
05:42Miller was the architect of the Trump administration's extreme immigration policy,
05:47spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to deploy mass federal agents to sow chaos in American streets.
05:56This is the same guy who smeared Rene Good and Alex Preddy as domestic terrorists.
06:01That was so, so disgusting.
06:05After federal agents murdered them.
06:07The man has no fidelity to any honor or truth.
06:11Americans want to send extremists like Miller packing.
06:15Trump wants to give him a title bump.
06:18Normally, the White House Chief of Staff is known as the President's gatekeeper.
06:22But it's clear that Stephen Miller intends to serve as the President's grim reaper.
06:28Donald Trump and Stephen Miller know this.
06:31The warm-up is over.
06:33The United States Senate is done.
06:35Doing your every wish.
06:37Our Democratic majority is going to fight the skyrocketing costs,
06:42incessant chaos, and flagrant corruption
06:44coming out of the White House with everything we have.
06:48I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum.
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