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Ruben Gallego: “Donald Trump wasn't that much better, but at least he was…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego)

Published December 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 28:46

And now they weren't feeling that anymore. And we weren't actually coming up and giving them solutions or even kind of an empathetic ear. And Donald Trump wasn't that much better, but at least he was kind of closer in that world to them when it comes to trying to bring a solution. You know, whether it's tax on tips or tax on overtime. Right. Like the, the Democratic position has to be one first aimed at true family economics, true family economics … (28:46–28:53)

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Asserts that Donald Trump was perceived as closer to providing solutions than Democrats by Latino men in Arizona.

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“Now we're taxing all their beef and all their coffee coming into this country.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 07:22-07:28
“Colombia...used to get most of its soybeans from the United States...now getting Brazilian soybean contracts.”
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“The right wing and anti Affordable Healthcare act portion of the party [...] are using the fact that Donald Trump is dumb when it comes to…”
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“The largest day for open enrollment on ACA is December 15th.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 02:51-02:56
“If you don't have a plan by December 15th, that means you don't have insurance starting January 1st.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 02:55-03:01
“ACA I think isn't the long term solution for this country.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 03:59-04:04
“We do have to focus as Democrats when we get back into power to bringing down the cost of healthcare, bringing up the quality and yes, have…”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 04:20-04:34
“We had a little, some, some conservative senators that just didn't want to move.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 04:42-04:46
“I don't think it's good policy because you're basically always going to be able to follow up bad policymaking with, like a payoff.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 05:54-06:03
“These farmers are going to be able to at least stay on their farms, which is great, but they don't have any markets to, to, to send their…”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 06:06-06:16
“Next year we're going to actually end up having more and more scarcity.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 06:26-06:30
“What Democrats are doing when we get back is that we need to bring back markets for these people to sell to.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 06:54-07:00
“We have a fight with Brazil because we're unhappy how their judicial system is treating an ex insurrectionist president.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 07:12-07:22
“The middle class doesn't exist in this country.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 08:09-08:12
“Increasing the minimum wage...should at least be 20 bucks an hour.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 08:38-08:42
“We should make sure there's a child tax credit for these families.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 08:42-08:46
“There's been a cost shift that the burdens that used to be kind of public are now personal.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 10:24-10:33
“Wages still haven't kept up with that [cost shift].”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 10:24-10:33
“It's in our national interests to screw Russia over because they would do anything and have done anything to us.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 15:07-15:15
“We should be the coordinator of the effort of freedom, right talking to European leaders.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 15:35-15:42
“The fact is that where we're kind of stepping back and creating this void of leadership in a very difficult situation, you know, scares…”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 16:03-16:12
“The people it really empowers is China in the end because they're seeing how easily they could fray our alliances.”
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“We need Europe to be with us. You know, China is a big, big economy with a lot, a lot of people.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 16:41-16:49
“How we act in Ukraine is going to affect all those relationships.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 17:00-17:04
“We need to make sure that there's a consistent rising of wages.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 20:38-20:42
“The biggest mistake we did as Democrats is that we dropped the minimum wage.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 20:41-20:46
“We should, A, make sure that we minute wage catches up and B, that it never falls behind should always be indexed to inflation.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 20:49-20:56
“If we had not done that, the average minimum wage, you know, right now would be somewhere around the mid-20s.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 21:04-21:10
“The amount of men that are leaving teaching is, Is growing exponentially.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 22:21-22:25
“Right now because teacher pay is down, but also because we just haven't prioritized making the teaching profession something that, that…”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 22:38-22:49
“Sports are getting more and more elite. So every day, you know, working class boys and girls don't actually have much access to equitable…”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 23:39-23:49
“There should be a massive effort by the federal government, local government, to really encourage extracurriculars again for our kids.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 23:50-23:59
“We have to get rid of the filibuster.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 26:22-26:25
“A lot of them we did want to do, but for one or two senators, enough senators it was enough to filibuster some of these efforts.”
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“What ends up binding all Democratic coalition voters, and some of us knew this instinctively and some of us in is actually working class…”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 27:35-27:46
“Democrats slipped with everyone in 2024 because the one binding thing that people trusted us with, we messed up.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 28:02-28:13
“Latino men in Arizona in 2024 were mad at Democrats because they felt betrayed.”
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“These were men that were working their whole lives and always thought they could always work their way out of a problem.”
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“We weren't actually coming up and giving them solutions or even kind of an empathetic ear.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 28:40-28:46
“The Democratic position has to be one first aimed at true family economics.”
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“People want to have stabilized, people want to have kids, people want to have Houses.”
Trump's Bailout for the Economic DISASTER He Caused (ft. Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded December 9, 2025 | 29:07-29:12