{"id":1051823,"date":"2025-03-04T23:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051823"},"modified":"2025-03-04T23:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:27:31","slug":"statement-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-trumps-disastrous-joint-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/statement-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-trumps-disastrous-joint-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin on Trump\u2019s Disastrous Joint Address"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In response to Donald Trump\u2019s Joint Address to Congress tonight, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTonight, every Republican got out of their seats and gave a standing ovation for skyrocketing costs, economic freefall, and the next American recession \u2014 brought to you by Donald Trump. I dare every single one of these Republicans who blindly applauded for Trump to go home and meet their voters face-to-face. But they won\u2019t, because they know that the Republican tax scam to take money out of the pockets of working people to give trillions in handouts to the rich will cost them their jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump says he loves a lot of people. He loves farmers so much that he killed their contracts and is raising their fertilizer costs. He loves seniors so much that he\u2019ll shutter their nursing homes and go after Social Security. He loves young people so much that he\u2019s going to defund public schools and take away their health care. He loves American families so much that he\u2019s making it more expensive to put food on the table and harder to pay for child care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of using his Joint Address to offer solutions or rehabilitate his image for the American people who \u2014 after only six weeks \u2014 have lost confidence in his presidency, he instead rehashed old grievances and evaded responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Donald Trump\u2019s Joint Address to Congress tonight, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cTonight, every Republican got out of their seats and gave a standing ovation for skyrocketing costs, economic freefall, and the next American recession \u2014 brought to you by Donald Trump. 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