Sen. Chuck Schumer sent President Trump a letter asking him to invoke the Defense Production Act. The senator tells Chris Hayes about the written response he received from Trump on Thursday.
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‘Appalled:’ Sen. Chuck Schumer Responds To President Trump’s Letter | All In | MSNBC
“A bidding war” for life-saving equipment…
That, right there, sums up everything that is wrong with the U.S. in one sentence.
ajs1031 you’re the China bot skippy.
ajs1031 just trying to keep up with the top Russian bot and China bot in you. Keep trying
ajs 1031 not sure where you get you info, but it just has to be another flaming left wing one that reports 95% negative anything on Trump despite the fact he’s the most successful president in US history.
There’s a better than 50% chance the US has helped your country, likely more than once, in the past. Your prosperity is tied to ours. We go down, so do you.
We also likely defend you against any foe, so you can retire at night and not worry about some rogue nation invading your country.
Perhaps you should consider thinking things thru before spouting ridiculous claims and innuendo. Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
@felix u _despite the fact he’s the most successful president in US history._
LOL. Finally a Rusbot that’s actually funny. It had to happen sooner or later.
@ajs1031 well, I could ask you to google it up, but that would ensnare you in a quagmire of liberal contributors whose chief purpose for the next 5 years is trying to excise Trump off planet earth. So, instead I offer an older list of Trump’s accomplishments:
Almost 6 million jobs created since election.
* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
* We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since 2016 election.
* Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
after Obama claimed it was dead.
* Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
* New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
* Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
* African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
* Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
* Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
* Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
* Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
* Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
* Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
* Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
* The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
* Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
* Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
* As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
* Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
* Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
* Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
* Record number of regulations eliminated.
* Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
* Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
* My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
* Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
* We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
* Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
* Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
* We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
* Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high. US is now highest energy producing nation on earth.
* United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
* Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
* Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
* NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
* Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
* Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
* Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
* Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
* Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
* Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
* Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
* Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
* Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
* Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
* Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
* We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.
*BORDER APPREHENSIONS DOWN 70% UNDER TRUMP
If you find any item to be false, please point it out. If found as such, it will be removed.
We are suppose to be the UNITED States, under 1 federal government, not 50 states fighting for life saving equipment!
Oh its a national state emergency its all up to the federal government now cumo can go home and kick back in his lazy boy… republican enemy trump bad thats all u need to say
@Vicki McCune ready and researching doesn’t good hand and hand with some individuals
read constitution about responsibility of the federal govt
@David Goldman read the Pandemic And All Hazard Response law.
The Constitution is a base , we add amendments as society & people change, we add laws to address issues we face at time. Times change forefathers knew that
That law was 2006.
@Vicki McCune originally 2006 but re authorized in 2019 by R-burr and other republicans- expired in 2018 passed under bush continued under Obama then trump- nothing I read in the act gives total control or responsibilities to just the federal govt Vicki. no person or government is or can be perfect. not all situations can be understood before they happen. not sure of your age but I am 64 and can tell you this life is often unfair
If those checks were campaign fliers they’d be done and delivered in a week’s time.
@Rose Sanderson It’s taxpayer money, you stupid excuse of a humanoid. You trailer park trash won’t be eligible for it, you already get too much taxpayer money to begin with.
Those checks will be his campaign fliers, but remember that money came from us; it was our money and it is still our money. Any money the govt has comes from the taxpayers.
If they were checks for 45’s beloved wall he would find away to make it happened quickly!
I hope that people depending on the stimulus checks will get them before May 1, 2020. I also hope people get their checks and respond strongly against this administration on Election Day 🗳
Ouch. And he wants his signature on those checks…..SICK!!!!!!!!!!
yes
Here we are calling ourselves the *”United”* States and this guy is playing _every state for himself._
Repubs believe in States rights remember and apparently by any means necessary, except when corps in those states need a bailout from the feds.
I don’t agree with everything Schumer said… HOWEVER, I will totally agree with him about Fed taking over and managing distribution of PPE and supply!!
And even our military doesn’t have the proper PPE. Tragic and unacceptable.
@Kenny Hill Ebola has a cure.
@Joelle Ranee Actually no. He resigned as Trump should have were he not a shameless huckster who relies on fairytale versions of reality spun up in his own mind. GOP gonna paaaaaaaay.
@Ed G “Ebola has a cure.”
And? That doesn’t stop the number of cases increasing in the first place – it just allows you to save the infected.
The stats speak for themselves, only 4 cases from spread in the US – 4, nuff said.
And if there is a cure why did that one patient die?
@Ed G Thank you I was 5 then and my parents really guarded the T.V. then I was wondering why people called Nixon a Liar when I was a kid. Plus in school it was never talked about either and we were not taught anything about it either. So not sure if the info online is right either..LOL Yeah they gonna PAAAAY BIIIGG Tiiimee.. Lots of people loosing their lives, business, and employment too. Plus some people who get sick and survive what will the long term harm this will cause some people.
@Ed G check this out shows what hospital beds and ventilators in available in your area and when the apex will hit https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
United We Stand, Divided We Fall!! GREED GREED GREED never thought this day would come that our Federal Government would allow such a travesty to take place! As I understand also foreign countries bid on some PPE , so as deperatly as we need it here in the US it may very well go to them if the price is right! Shame On The Companies allowing this to take place! Shame On Our President! Don’t you know other countries are laughing at us as well as some crying!🙏😇
We Brits have our problems but the one thing we are blessed not to have is Donald Trump and his kids running the country.I feel sorry for the sane Americans and pity for the ignorant hillbillies who voted and supported the man who loves only himself and the yankee dollar. Good on the Governors in all the states who are doing all they can on their own. For the good of the world and the US….Trump’s words may bring him down before November. Stay safe to everyone
Who knew rampant capitalism could be so cruel? Burn it down
@Marc Hughes I’ll tell you what scares me….Sadly, I know too many of these idiots who love Trump. Some of these people (my friends and family) are very educated (booksmart). I’m seeing how gullible and dumb they really are.
Put General Honoree in charge!!! Not Jared or Miller..
The great emancipator was right a house divided will fall… they’ve gotten their wish, it was only a democracy if yhey could keep it and they’ve dropped the ball…
Recall Lt. General Russell Honore from retirement and put him in charge of federal healthcare logistics for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis.
Dotards won’t let him be the person on the front line oh, because he is the wartime president
They certainly need another person on the job. According to that letter Rear Admiral John Polowczyk is “working 24 hours a day” “purchasing, distributing, etc.” Perhaps this is why he’s making so many mistakes?
@shadshowadradna Precisely, Trump doesn’t work 8 hours a day let alone 24, so it doesn’t occur to him that this is literally impossible to sustain for more than a day or 2.
Imagine if we moved at this speed after Pearl Harbor. It would take us 50 years to get to Tokyo and Berlin.
Mcbeg33 umm no we would all be speaking german but at least we would have healthcare
Spending a Year trying to “Find it on a map”
@John Griffith BAZINGA !!!! Ohne Zweifel!!!!! (No Doubt)
N Korea has starting testing even more now. We are so vunulrable right now.
@John Griffith Not all of us.
It would be interesting as to what investments Trump/Kushner has going right now.
Trump’s to do list: Obfuscation ✔️ Equivocation ✔️ Militant ignorance ✔️ Denial ✔️
Excellent job. Tremendous! Now, back to the narcissistic wet dreams? ✔️
@Truth Time2112 it’s called Truth
@Truth Time2112 Democrats lie every day. They can’t keep track.
@The Count
AGREED
@Truth Time2112 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o
Does your ignorance know no bounds?
Gold star TV, Whirlpool, Hotpoint, Oster, Hamilton Beech. Ask anybody about our home companies that could retool. !!!!!!!
MONEY, it is all about money. – The rich, very rich are making killing…. big time.
@Petyr Kowalski Hello truth teller
@Petyr Kowalski
Pelosi made sure millions went to her daughter on the board of the Kennedy Center.
You OK with that ?
Sam Chiu…..🇺🇸Schumer’s onto tRump’s scamn’ sham show
@for paws
The whole country is wise to the corrupt treasonous Dumpacraps.
They’ve made it quite clear they are corrupt and treasonous.
Ken Bugbee if its true and if it was against the law then no I am NOT OK with it. This is NOT a partisan issue or point being made. I am against corruption and blatant nepotism..especially in public officials and I dont care what party they represent. Anyway, you are deflecting…so nice try….lets get back to Trumps motives and 40+ year modus operandi of grift and corruption.
Its simple look at who profits from this mess and you’ll find the answer. The presidents friends.
What crap!… New Yorkers know better than you and Cuomo and Schumer never saw this coming despite being in office longer than Trump ( also a New Yorker). Time for term limits for the state of New York!
@Joy Phillips the president had intelligence brefings as far back as early January . But as we remember the president continually discredited the intelligence community.
“Friends?” I thought his ‘friends’ were merely convenient targets for all of his mistakes.
@Joy Phillips Get your facts right, they saw this coming, requested ventilators and Trump questions the amount as he didn’t believe them, now more New York people will die due to Trump mishandling of this crisis. Trump is way out of his depth.
George W. Bush (and Bill Gates & countless others) have warned that this country is unprepared both in procedure AND EQUIPMENT for a pandemic. I guess it’s Trumps fault because he’s rich & white though.
The pres. Not doing it he’s making money some how some way!!! He doesn’t care about the American people.
Because he doesn’t see you as “people.” He sees you as “numbers.”
ask putan
Of course he does dummy. The problem is you, you’re just too stupid to understand it.
Sam Beckett You sound the just like the current president all grown up so this is what Hillary was talking about when she said a basket of deplorable’s couldn’t you have picked a better mentor?
@Donald Steele Was that supposed to be a intelligible sentence? Possibly you could get a fifteen year old to critique it for you and write it in a grammatically correct and understandable format. Possibly you recall Hillary Clinton lost the election, deleting over 30,000 incriminating emails didn’t help her cause. I’m saddened and deeply troubled that the U.S. possesses such a large population of uneducated and misguided individuals such as yourself. I’m deeply distressed that should people of your character and IQ gain power and elect such buffoons like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden that we would soon see this country in financial ruin. Donald Trump has accomplished great things for this country already, I am excited to see what he will accomplish in the next four years. Sadly you are too obtuse to perceive his achievements.
He has his finger in the bidding war pie perhaps so he doesn’t want to sign the act and lose out on that revenue 🤷♀️
Joy Gordon please cite where you got that info and base you statement on … go ahead I’ll wait #FakeNews
@Lori Stanford it’s my opinion, it comes from my own thoughts, it’s original which is more than I can say from Trump supporters who seems to have lost their ability to think. Everything is fake news this, fake news that, everything you say, even a person’s own thoughts is labeled fake news, Trump’s favorite catchphrase. Are people not allowed to have their own ideas in America now either?
Exactly!👏👏👏👏
Lori Stanford 👈🏼 ignorance
Then if so he learned from the best!!! Hilary and Biden
Nepotism, in this situation especially, is a disaster waiting to happen. The USA is the only democracy in the world where this can happen so blatantly, and to such an extent, without swift consequence. This is a flawed democracy.
Daniel Mathers where is it better?
@Lori Stanford Australia for one. New Zealand, the UK….the list goes on and on.
I agree. In almost every democratic nation this type of behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated by the leaders party and definitely not the populace. There is no way a leader in Aust, NZ, or UK would be able to eleveate their children, or their spouses, to positions of authority. They’re not eleceted representatives for starters. How is this even possible?
He held off doing it so corporations with washington interests can price gouge longer
Trump and his elite “friends” would absolutely like to see millions of people die to clear out more room for them.
Plus, saves on Social security.
@Roxann Watson
Yeah, you would like to think they would’nt be so psychopathic, petty, and greedy, but lets face it, they probably are.
@the machinist forgive me but your post has one major flaw
THE WORD PROBABLY