house democratic leader nancy pelosi is speaking live on the floor of the house. let s listen in. tens of millions of work families across america. trumpcare very clearly spotlights the dfrifferences. it is step forward in the longstanding republican belief that medicare should wigt if you believe in the health and well-being of the american people, you must reject this bill before us now. it is what here se what it means to the american people. much has been said about policy here today and over time. much has been said about politics. what are the politics of this. what s really important is what this means to the american people. and they know. they are listening. they know what it means to them. and it means, trumpcare does, it
and folk, we re just getting started. next up, as the president said yesterday, we ll roll our sleeves up and we ll cut taxes across the woboard for work families, small businesses and family farms. working with this congress, president trump will pass the largest tax cut since the days of ronald reagan. and we ll get this american economy moving again. we ll reform the tax code and make it flatter and simpler and fair. i guarantee you there isn t anyone here including the fosters who could make sense of the tax code. there is an old joke about how the tax code in this country is ten times the size ever the bibof the bible with none of the good news. truth is our taxes make it far
they re just going to impeach her. imagine if you had sitting democratic senators saying that about donald trump. before he was even elected. saying he will be impeached. okay, look, nobody likes gridlock. but gridlock is not something mysterious that descends like a fog on washington. gridlock doesn t happening because both sides are doing bad things and both sides are corrupt. that s not what s going on. gridlock happens purposely when republican politicians like marco rubio decide they will do anything to oppose anything. good for the country. if a democratic president proposes it. and that s now marco rubio s campaign platform, gridlock. if you think vote for gridlock is a good slogan, you should vote for republicans. but if you believe america can do better, if you think we should be doing something to create jobs for work families, if you think we should be
have you read that memo going back for 2007/2008 how these obama staffers including her current polster thought she was so vulnerable on these character issues? no, but it seems like it will make for an awkward staff meeting the next time we sit down. did you know at all about this? no. this is the first i m how does she deal with this issue that maybe her character, she s flawed, is you keep hearing this over and over again not just republicans, but some democrats making the case she s vulnerable on this issue. i think what you ll see tonight is that and what i think that the voters who really know her i think what any sthey see someone who has fighting for work families. not just in this campaign, but this has been her sole motivation and why she got into public service, why she s running for president is because she wants her sole driving motivating force is trying to
more, but not every in a way, though, where that leader seems to be suggesting as much as i have, oh, i know what your struggle is, right? it s a little gimmicky i m going to live in public housing or eat a diet that i can only buy with food stamps. i think the key here is relatability. and, as you said, americans don t hate people who have wealth, as much as people want to accuse us of that. in fact, a lot of people aspire to be wealthy. the key is to own your wealth and not apologize for it but realize that others haven t had the same opportunities and haven t come from the same household of prisons. oreally relating and say, look, i know today working moms have it tough. he just had a big white house summit on balancing work families. let s talk a it alittle bit t that as it goes.