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The economy is the most important question in the minds of the American people, and Senator Slotkin spoke about it more in a few minutes than Trump during all his two -hour speech.
Slotkin said:
Michigan has literally invented the middle class: the revolutionary idea that you could work in a car factory and offer you the car you are building. It’s the American dream. And to develop and protect the middle class, we must do some basic things:
We have to lower the price of things on which we spend the most money: grocery store. Accommodation. Health care. Your car.
We have to do more in America with well -paid union jobs – and bring our supply chains home like places like China.
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We need to give American companies the certainty they need to invest and create jobs for the future.
And we need a just tax scheme for people who do not earn a billion dollars.
Look, President Trump spoke a big game about the economy, but it is always important to read the small characters. So: do his plans really help Americans move forward?
Not even near.
President Trump tries to deliver an unprecedented gift to his billionaire friends. He is hunting to find billions of dollars to transmit to the richest in America. And to do it, he will make you pay in all parts of your life.
The grocery store and the prices of houses are increasing, not down – and it has not stated a credible plan to manage either.
Its prices on allies like Canada will increase the prices of energy, timber, cars – and trigger a trade war that will harm manufacturing and farmers.
Your premiums and prescriptions will cost more because mathematics on its proposals do not work without going after your health care.
Meanwhile, for those who maintain the scoring, the national debt increases, not down. And if he is not careful, he could walk us directly in a recession.
And one more thing: to pay for his plan, he could very well come after your retirement – the benefits of social security, health insurance and the va that you have worked all your life to earn. The president says he will not, but Elon Musk simply called Social Security “the biggest program of Ponzi of all time”.
Although we are on the subject of Elon Musk, is there someone in America who is comfortable with him and his 20-year-old gang who use their own computers to unravel your income statements, health information and bank accounts? No surveillance. No protection against cyber attack. No railing about what they do with your private data.
We need a more effective government. You want to cut the waste, I will help you do it. But the change does not need to be chaotic or make us less safe.
The insane dismissal of people who work to protect our nuclear weapons, prevent our planes from crashing and carrying out research that finds the remedy against cancer – only to recruit them two days later? No CEO in America could do so without being summarily dismissed.
American political history is strewn with politicians who missed the joint response of the session. From Bobby Jindal to Katie Britt, these answers can miss the brand and can become outright bizarre and ugly.
Slotkin was right on money.
While Trump spoke in America for hours, already trying to justify his already faulty presidency and convincing people not to believe their own eyes, Senator Slotkin spoke to the Americans about things that matter to them.
The answer was a home run, and this shows that the Democrats are on the right track for 2026 and beyond.