WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) took to the airwaves ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union to call out the President’s policies that are making Americans sicker, poorer, and less safe.
Tonight at 8:15 PM, Senator Gallego will join MeidasTouch and MoveOn’s “People’s State of the Union.” Earlier today, Gallego joined Senate Democratic leaders at a press conference.
See coverage below:
“The State of the Union speech is actually not going to be the State of the Union. It’s going to be a speech full of lies and excuses. I’d rather spend that time with my family. I have three young kids. I’d rather do productive things for my community. This president does not know how to talk about the country, does not know how to fight for the country. He only knows how to fight for himself.”
“People are hurting. People feel it every day. This country is sicker and poor because every decision this President Trump has made, and he’s only going to continue pushing this whole massive, massive deportation plan that is now racially profiling Americans, detaining them until they prove their citizenship, killing American citizens in the streets of our country. That was all paid for on the backs of cutting Medicaid for millions and millions of Americans. He’s not going to talk about solutions to that. He’s not going to talk about solutions, about how to stop the chaos that he moved from the border out to the chaos into our communities. He will talk about excuses. He will talk about grievances, but he will not talk about where this country needs to go, and that’s what Americans really need to be hearing right now.”
The Takeout with Major Garrett CBS:
“We’re up against an administration that has just made this country sicker and poorer. […] He cut Medicaid — kicking millions and millions of Americans off of Medicaid and used that to fund the suppression of Americans in our towns, creating chaos in our neighborhoods, separating families, racial profiling Americans every day and trying to call it immigration enforcement. We’ve seen it. We’ve seen this show before. The president goes and talks about him. He doesn’t talk about the State of the Union. I think there’s better things for me to be doing than wasting my time just listening to him just pontificate.”
“This president has caused more economic problems for the everyday American than any other president has in such a short time period.”
“I have kids. I have other obligations for my constituents. I’m not going to waste my time. This is one big charade. He’s there to talk about himself, not about the country, not about what the state of the union is, and I can be doing better things for my time.”
“I live in South Phoenix, in a very working-class area, and I still see people struggling. I still see people going to the checkout line at the grocery store and putting food back. I still see people not filling up their gas tanks, even though gas is pretty cheap right now. But people still have to watch every penny, and I still feel and hear the anxiety of people when I’m out in the community. These are working-class Americans.”
“I live in a very working class Latino area. […] They now feel they have to carry on passports [because of] this whole huge ICE surge, these deportations, the separation of families, the racial profiling of Latino Americans.”
“There’s a whole level of unease that’s happening right now, and this man does not know how to answer that, because he has zero amount of introspection when it comes to this. He is highly responsible for everything that’s happening.”
“I’m just prepping myself for the hour long rant that’s gonna come from the President. Gotta tell you, I pretty much anticipate just like ongoing blah, blah, blah, all about him, all about how he’s great, but nothing about how we’re actually gonna take care of you and fix your world. I look forward to trying to decipher what he says, because half the time he speaks like a crazy person.”