(2 Apr 2025)
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Washington DC – 2 April 2025
1. Wide of Senate Democrats walking out for press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"Why would Trump do this? One reason he wants to take the money that he gains from tariffs to give tax cuts to billionaires. And when told that American families would have a great would pay a whole lot more out of their pockets, you know, he said, I don’t care. What kind of bubble is this man and his billionaire cohorts in that they don’t understand that when the average American family is told that you’re going to have to pay $5,000 more for the things you buy, that it pains them so."
3. Cutaway of reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"So soon the Senate will vote on a resolution from Senator Kaine to undo Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods. And we hope that some of our Republican colleagues will join us in that. They don’t like the tariffs either. They know they’re a tax hike on the American people. They know that the stock market is in turmoil, risking people’s retirements. They know that consumer confidence is down and the odds of a recession something people hate. It’s harder to find a job, keep a job, maintain your weekly budget if a recession occurs. And now our greatest financial prognosticators are saying the chances of recession because of these tariffs, this tariff tax goes way up. So we’re going to fight these tariffs tooth and nail. Trump’s done a lot of bad things. This is way up there."
5. Pan from reporters to Senate Democtats listening to question
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Tim Kaine, (D) Virginia:
"It’s an unusual procedure. There are not many things where even one senator can file a motion that will be guaranteed a floor vote, but the crafters of this legislation, the International Emergencies Act, believed that while a president might need to declare an emergency that should not go unchallenged, if members of Congress felt like, hold on a second, let’s get this right."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Tim Kaine, (D) Virginia:
"We have support left, right and center because people don’t want Americans to have to struggle to pay more for groceries, pay more for building supplies, pay more for apple pie, for God’s sake."
8. Mid, pull-out to wide of Senate Democrats walking out of room
STORYLINE:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is encouraging his fellow senators including Republicans to support resolution that would nullify Canada tariffs.
Sen. Tim Kaine, the Virginia Democrat who initiated the resolution, said that President Donald Trump was inventing a “made-up emergency” to help pay for extending tax cuts that he argued would mostly benefit the wealthy.
Democrats are highlighting how the tariffs on Canada could make it more expensive to build homes, disrupt industries like shipbuilding and beer brewing and raise prices on imported grocery products.
But Senate Republicans are facing pressure Wednesday from Trump to oppose the resolution that would nullify the presidential emergency on fentanyl he is using to implement tariffs on Canada.
Just hours after Trump is set to announce his plan for “reciprocal tariffs” on China, Mexico and Canada — his so-called “Liberation Day” — the Senate was expected to vote on a resolution that offers Republicans an off-ramp to the import taxes on Canada.
If all Democrats plus the four Republicans vote in favor, it would boost it to the simple majority needed to pass the Senate.
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