(4 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington, DC – 4 April 2025
1. Wide of Senate Minority Leader Schumer, others, walk to lectern
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"Instead of fixing inflation, which he promised to do, Donald Trump unleashed a wave of tariffs that will make inflation much, much worse. It is estimated the average American family will pay $5,000 more a year because of these tariffs. It is believed that these tariffs will hurt our economy and families from one end of America to the other. Here’s what the nonpartisan chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, just said. It will increase inflation and slow growth. So I am introducing an amendment to the Senate budget resolution with Senator Klobuchar and many other Dems that says that the amendment will create, will make sure that any tariff put in place after January 20th, 25 will be rescinded if they have increased the costs of groceries, medicines, or other secondary goods. We leave in place the tariffs only on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"So we have here a pincer of pain. On the one hand, Trump and the Republicans are taking away vital services in health care and in housing and in food and in so many other things Americans need, and then at the same time, with the other side of the pincer, they’re squeezing them by creating higher prices."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Ron Wyden, (D) Oregon:
"It’s a bloodbath in the markets again today. And what you have all over the country now is Americans wincing as they look at their retirement accounts. And people are petrified. We’re getting the calls about their jobs, their own personal finances. So they’re hurting, but the billionaires on the other hand have got an ace in the hole, and that’s their friends in the United States Senate, the Republicans. So while the economy is burning, thanks to Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs, the bill the Republicans are scrambling to pass is essentially a bailout for them and big corporations."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, (D) Nevada:
"But everybody knows Las Vegas. You know, that’s the main revenue generator for our state, tourism and travel? Tourism and travel. Do you know what happens when you impose high tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, on some of our allies like Canada? That means we’re not seeing people traveling, international traveling, coming to Las Vegas and to this country. Do you know the United States United States benefits $12 billion from international travelers? Over 20 billion annually in 2024. That’s not happening now. I can tell you in my state, as I talk to folks in my hotels and casinos and I talk to individuals who are focused on travel and tourism, we are not seeing that. We are seeing a downturn in the types of travel coming to Las Vegas."
6. Wide of Schumer and others walking away from lectern and exiting
STORYLINE:
As stock markets tumble in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Democrats in Congress are slamming Trump and his Republican allies, calling the rout on Wall Street "a bloodbath," and saying they envision inflation "getting much, much worse."
"So they’re hurting, but the billionaires on the other hand, have got an ace in the hole, and that’s their friends in the United States Senate, the Republicans," said Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.
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