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++BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITES++
Washington, DC – 4 March 2025
1. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent, of Vermont, walking between reporters
UPSOUND (English) Reporter: "What did you think of Trump’s speech? What did you think of Trump’s speech?"
UPSOUND (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont: "Not much. My speech is going to be better. Give it a few minutes."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Yassamin Ansari, (D) Arizona:
"As always I think Donald Trump is lying when it comes to Ukraine. I don’t know what Vladimir Putin has on him, but it seems that he is willing to just repeat talking points of Russia and the fact that what happened in the White House a couple of days ago saw so much, so many people disavowing it from both sides of the aisle. Former national security experts, former cabinet secretaries, former military officials saying this president and this vice president are bending the knee to our biggest adversaries in the world. That’s terrifying to me. That’s a huge threat to our national security and I want to know why this is happening."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Brandon Gill, (R) Texas:
"I thought it was everything we would want to see from President Trump and more."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Brandon Gill, (R) Texas:
(Reporter: "You are trying to push to have the president on the $100 bill is that right?")
Gill: "That’s right."
(Reporter: "And how has that been going? Are you finding any support with that?)
Gill: "You , know , listen, what we’ve got to do is show that Congress has the president’s back. That we believe in his mission. We believe in getting America Into the golden age and I think that this bill that I put forward is a good way to show support for that. So I think that we’ve had a very positive reaction from other Republican members of course nobody from the other side of the aisle, excuse me, has gotten on , board but we’ll see where it goes."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy as he delivered an unyielding address Tuesday night to Congress and the nation.
Democratic legislators registered their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out "lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.
Trump’s prime-time speech added up to a defiant sales pitch for the policies that he promised during his campaign and leaned into during his first weeks back in office.
Trump pledged to keep delivering sweeping changes to the country, rescuing it from what he described as destruction and mistakes left by his predecessor while repeatedly needling Democrats.
Representative Yassamin Ansari,, a Democrat from Arizona, said the president’s words on immigration made her angry. She was also disturbed by the reaction of Republicans in Congress.
"I think it’s appalling that this administration and the Republicans who were sitting on the other side of the aisle feel so comfortable standing up and applauding outright racism, outright scapegoating," she said.
Republican Brandon Gill of Texas said he thought the speech was "everything we would want to see from President Trump and more."
Gill said he is pushing to have Trump’s picture on the $100 bill.
"What we’ve got to do is show that Congress has the president’s back. That we believe in his mission. We believe in getting America Into the golden age and I think that this bill that I put forward is a good way to show support for that," he said.
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