March 5, 2025
FROM GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL: “The cost of living is too damn high in New York and across America. Yet President Trump’s address to Congress failed to offer a single meaningful solution to the affordability crisis. In fact, we heard the exact opposite: plan after plan that would raise costs on consumers. The President doubled down on his tariffs, which would cost New York families more than $1,200 each year and devastate our family farms. He called on Congress to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act, which would risk 50,000 jobs and a $100 billion investment in Central New York. And he was shockingly silent on health care — even as his allies in Congress threaten to strip Medicaid coverage away from millions of New Yorkers. But that’s not how we do things here in New York. I’m going to continue our laser focus on affordability, fighting to pass a budget that lowers middle-class taxes and triples the child tax credit. No matter what nonsense comes out of Washington, I’ll keep fighting to put money back in your pockets.”
FROM SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER: “President Trump rattled off broken promise after broken promise and lie after lie. There was more truth in 10 minutes of Elissa Slotkin’s rebuttal than 2 hours of Donald Trump’s longwinded diatribe. Instead of focusing on driving costs down, in Donald Trump’s first month in office, inflation, rents, groceries, and Putin’s influence are all on the rise. The stock market is plummeting as he starts ill-conceived trade wars with our allies—hurting our famers, families and 401Ks. Americans will look at what he has done, not what he says, and see the destruction he’s beginning to wreak on you, your family, and our country. Senate Democrats will keep fighting for a brighter future for American families and holding the Trump administration accountable”.
FROM STATE DEMOCRAT CHAIR JAY JACOBS: “The entire country saw last night that Donald Trump’s presidency is already a complete failure as he wreaks havoc on the economy and leaves everyday New Yorkers out to dry. Instead of fulfilling his promise to bring down costs, Trump is igniting a reckless trade war that will make inflation skyrocket, is working with New York House Republicans to put health care on the chopping block, and is promising to get rid of the CHIPS Act which would rip 50,000 jobs away from New York. While Trump keeps pandering to billionaires and dictators, New York Democrats will continue fighting back against Republican attacks on New Yorkers’ pocketbooks, health care, and freedoms.”
