Take a break from Trump and hear from regular Americans about the real state of our Union. Watch Scott Chittock, a Lordstown General Motors worker, talk about how hard it’s going to be to get by after losing his job.
“Everybody works at GM, so without that, it’s gonna be really tough.” – GM Lordstown worker Scott Chittock
Take a break from Trump and hear from regular Americans about the real state of our Union. Watch student veteran Hillari Brandt talk about how she is struggling to pay her tuition after delays at Trump’s VA prevented her from getting the benefits she needed and deserved.
“The GI Bill pays my tuition and for my classes and then they pay me a monthly stipend so I can eat and pay for my housing … Which kind of put me into survival mode.” – Student veteran Hillari Brandt
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, DNC Chair Tom Perez discussed what Trump did not mention in his State of the Union address last night. Trump did not mention critical issues like climate change, his 35-day government shutdown, gun violence, student debt, or equal pay, and he only said one sentence on pre-existing conditions.
I wore white to the #SOTU to honor the extraordinary women of the 116th Congress, to honor my mother Dee Dee, whose “ERA Now” pin I remember well, and the suffragettes, whose tireless work afforded my great-grandmothers, Sara Johnson and Rose Phillips, the right to vote in 1920. pic.twitter.com/aPW42XQzYB
— Rep. Dean Phillips (@RepDeanPhillips) February 6, 2019
President Trump said late Wednesday that he would deliver his State of the Union address after the ongoing partial government shutdown is over.
“As the Shutdown was going on, [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “I agreed. She then changed her mind because of the Shutdown, suggesting a later date. This is her prerogative — I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over.”
Trump, in a subsequent tweet, expanded on earlier statements suggesting he may do an “alternative” State of the Union, writing that he was not seeking another venue because “there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber.”
View the complete January 23 article by Mary Tyler March on The Hill website here.
The following article by Vanessa Williams was posted on the Washington Post website January 31, 2018:
Even before President Trump took to the lecturn to deliver his first State of the Union speech, the rebuttal was well underway at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington.
A panel of academics and activists issued a scathing critique of the president’s first year in office: Trump does not deserve credit for the declining unemployment rate among black Americans, his rhetoric has divided rather than united the country, and his policies are geared toward protecting the interests and freedoms of a wealthy minority. Continue reading “NAACP event delivers different view of State of the Union”
The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website January 30, 2018:
2018 State of the Union in 3 Minutes
In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump described an ambitious vision of Democratic members joining him and Republicans in overhauling immigration policy and rebuilding the country’s aging infrastructure. Reality, however, shows how difficult it all will be.
Trump, after a year of harsh comments and tweets about Democrats, struck a new tone Tuesday — at least for one night — by describing a country in which “all of us” should come “together, as one team, one people, and one American family.” The president who has yet to pass major legislation with a single Democratic vote said he wants “both parties to come together.” Continue reading “Reality Check: Trump’s State of the Union Vision Blurred By Congress”
