'That's The Donald Trump Legacy': Aguilar Slams Trump For Stock Market Dip Amid Tariff Uncertainty

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During a House Democratic Leadership press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) spoke about the health of the economy amid President Trump's tariffs.

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00:00Michael.

00:01Go ahead, Scott.

00:02Thank you, Mr. Chair.

00:03Donald Trump has painted this picture of his first few weeks as cleaning up the mess that

00:09the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled Congress left behind.

00:14He has a powerful media ecosystem behind him that, you know, a lot of Americans really

00:20turn to for their news.

00:21How do you break through that information gap and help folks understand the things that

00:28you did in previous Congress?

00:30What you all will do if you were to get those gavel backs, given the fact that he has such

00:34control of such a powerful megaphone now that he's president again and has this big media

00:39ecosystem behind him?

00:40Well, and we saw 99 minutes of lies in front of the American public.

00:45We're not trying to compete with that.

00:47We're trying to talk directly to the American people about our positive vision for the future,

00:53but it's based on data.

00:56The American people can see that Donald Trump was given an economy that was on the way up.

01:02We could come from the pandemic, worked our way through that, stock market, inflation

01:09going down, stock market going up.

01:11It's completely inverted now.

01:14Stock market crumbling, consumer confidence declining.

01:17That's the Donald Trump legacy.

01:20That's what Donald Trump's economy and his tariffs, on again, off again, all of that

01:25uncertainty, the American public.

01:26They may not follow every in and out, but they know that these guys are not fighting

01:31for them.

01:32And so I appreciate the DPCC and Leader Jeffries offering an opportunity for us to get our

01:39message out in a different format during the joint address to Congress.

01:44Collective eyeballs looking at content is something that we're all talking about now.

01:50We're doing different things.

01:52We're trying to reach more people to get our positive message about the country and what

01:57we stand for.

01:58Those are things that we can control and that we can do.

02:00We're not trying to compete with Donald Trump for that megaphone that he has with the conservative

02:05media apparatus behind him.

02:07We're trying to focus on the American people and to show them how we're fighting, what

02:12we're fighting for, and the importance of this moment.

02:15That's what this vote was about.

02:16We stood up for the American people.

02:19And we will, time and time again, have their interests in mind when we're voting to protect

02:24health care, to protect investments in life-saving medicine.

02:28All of those things House Democrats continue to do.

02:31Whip Clark.

'That's The Donald Trump Legacy': Aguilar Slams Trump For Stock Market Dip Amid Tariff Uncertainty

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