On Your TV: Democratic Governors Slam Trump’s Tariffs and Threats to Federal Funding and Health Care
On Your TV: Democratic Governors Slam Trump’s Tariffs and Threats to Federal Funding and Health Care
While Trump continues to champion his job-killing tariffs and ramp up his administration’s attacks on funding for Medicaid and agencies that support cancer research, Democratic governors took to national TV shows to condemn Trump’s policies that continue to raise costs on everyday goods and directly hurt working families.
Here’s how Democratic governors are speaking out, standing up for people in their states, and making real progress on the issues that matter most.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey on CBS’s Face the Nation, MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber, and PBS’s Amanpour & Company:“These cuts to universities have significant ripple effects, because they result in people being laid off, scientists being laid off, doctors being laid off … It’s bad for patients, it’s bad for science, and it’s really bad for American competitiveness.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Fox News Sunday: “There’s not a lot of respect for Social Security by this administration. They’ve sent DOGE in to basically tear it apart, they’re closing down offices that our seniors need to access … Republicans have been attacking Medicaid for years and years … It’s going to really hurt working families across the United States.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes: “There were a lot of folks there saying ‘none of this is what we voted for. None of this is what they talked about,’ and so I think there is an awakening, if you will, of folks who are really engaging in a way I quite honestly haven’t seen …[Republican members of Congress] need to stand in front of [their constituents] and say why gutting the VA makes sense. Why did you allow an unelected official like Elon Musk to be able to take Social Security, to be able to take that data?”
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki: “Whether it’s the tariffs that will make life more difficult or significant cuts to Medicaid, it’s going to leave a lot of people who ended up voting for President Trump feeling betrayed … [they] thought [Trump] was going to make life for them a little bit easier, and now, his policies are making it a lot harder.”
Maine Governor Janet Mills on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “And when he said, ‘I am the law,’ my jaw dropped … I have spent my career – the better part of my career – defending and protecting the rights of women and girls in health care, in employment, housing credit, and the like. I was appalled. I am appalled at his interpretation that he can just reinvent the law.”
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and CBS America Decides: “Listen to the markets, they have spoken loud and clear … ‘Liberation day,’ all you’re doing is liberating hundreds of dollars a month from our wallets, and the markets collapsed … right now, you’re hurting the American consumer every day.”
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer on CNN Newsroom Live and NewsNation’s The Hill: “There are tens of thousands of AmeriCorps members all across our country serving, hundreds of thousands who have served for years. That program is being gutted … when people see their 401k disappearing, $11 trillion of lost retirement savings in the first 11 weeks of this president’s administration, that resonates.”
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