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BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren unleashes a fiery speech to block taxpayer funding for Trump's hideous ballroom: "Americans are selling their plasma to pay for groceries and gas!"
And that wasn't even the best part...
"Right now, I'm BLOCKING a Republican bill to build Donald Trump's ballroom. Instead of rubber-stamping Trump’s gold-encrusted ballroom, Congress must lower costs for American families," Warren wrote on X, sharing a video of her speech.
And what a speech it was.
This one has MAGA world seething.
"Donald Trump promised to lower costs on day one. Well, today is day four hundred and sixty-four of Donald Trump's presidency and we are in a full-blown affordability crisis," Warren said on the Senate floor.
"We are two months into Trump's illegal war with Iran. A war that, according to experts, is costing taxpayers over a billion dollars a day," she said. "American families are getting flattened by rising costs on just about everything from groceries to rent to gas. Just today, gas prices hit a new high since Trump started his war. People are stretching themselves to the brink just to pay their bills."
"But what is the biggest issue of the day, according to Republicans in Congress? Fast-tracking Donald Trump's gold-encrusted ballroom!" Warren raged. "Now, another recent Republican plan would send $400 million to the White House, I guess to buy more gold leaf and onyx marble for the wannabe king."
In the wake of the alleged assassination attempt against Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Republicans have been engaged in a full-court press to build Trump's $400 million ballroom.
Originally, Trump had claimed that corporate donors would foot the bill for his vanity project — a blatant pay-to-play scheme that would have allowed companies to buy access to the White House. But now, people like Lindsey Graham are insisting that taxpayers should fund the build.
"But I want to be clear," said Warren. "It is common sense that we can, of course, protect the president without shoveling millions of dollars into Trump's ballroom in the middle of an affordability crisis. This bill to rubber-stamp Trump's latest vanity project is a giant slap in the face to American families. It's plain and simple."
"Americans are selling their plasma to pay for groceries and gas!" she continued. Think about that. Americans, right now, today, are selling their blood just to pay their bills."
"And what's the Republican solution? Dump more money into Donald Trump's gold-encrusted vanity project," Warren went on. "And let's do it on a fast track, because it's that urgent. Well, here are a few other ideas for things we could fast-track to actually help the American people..."
"We could reverse Trump's and the Republicans' giant healthcare cuts that kicked millions of Americans off their health insurance and jacked up insurance premiums for millions more."
"Or we could deliver affordable child care for every American family."
"Or we could undo Republicans' cuts to food assistance for families."
"Or we could put a stop to Trump's across-the-board tariffs."
"Or we could end Donald Trump's war with Iran."
"And look, the list goes on and on," she said. "But nowhere on the list of ways to lower costs for American families is rubber-stamping Donald Trump's lavish ballroom. Remember, Trump's ballroom has already become a tool for what looks like corruption in plain sight. Since day one, giant corporations have lined up to dump millions of dollars into Trump's ballroom. And that includes Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Comcast, Coinbase, and Palantir. And those are just the people and the entities that we know of."
"Others are being kept secret from the American people because Donald Trump has let them stay anonymous," Warren continued. "So what do they have to hide? And what are all these donors expecting in return? And by the way, if Congress bankrolls this ballroom for Trump's corporate donors, like other Republicans are proposing, what happens to all those private donations? If Trump is using his ballroom to facilitate a giant pay-to-play scheme, then the American people deserve to know."
"Instead of dumping even more money into Trump's golden ballroom, we need to put an end to this corruption and focus on lowering costs for American families," she added. "That's what Democrats are laser-focused on. Republicans should join us and get it done!"
Bravo Senator Warren! We refuse to pay for Trump's ballroom and will vote against ANYONE who supports it!
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