-You had a situation in Ohio where GM is closing some plants.
You've had an opportunity to talk to the President
about this as far as what could he do.
When you talk to him about issues like this,
maybe how his tax plan affected the GM factories in your state,
do you feel as though he understands you
on a policy level?
-I think I'd start with --
I think he's betrayed those workers.
He came to Youngstown in the campaign
and since the campaign saying,
"We're going to bring jobs back to this region."
This plant -- GM,
after taxpayers rescued them ten years ago,
after the Trump tax plan gave them huge tax cuts,
the company is shutting down this plant,
building more capacity in Mexico,
doing stock buybacks for the executives.
So, I called the President, personally talked to him
maybe 20 minutes, and I said, you know,
there is a provision in the law that says
if you're producing -- if you're manufacturing in Ohio,
you pay a 21% tax rate.
If you move to Mexico, you pay a 10.5% tax rate.
It's sort of a 50% off coupon
encouraging these companies to move.
And I said to the President, you know, that's a real problem,
and that's causing these companies to move offshore.
The President said, "Where did that idea come from?
I never heard of that." I said,
"Mr. President, it was actually in your tax bill."
And it was in his new tax law.
And it's one of those things I've asked him to change,
because it means more jobs move offshore,
and more people in -- all over the country,
not just the industrial Midwest, lose jobs.
-So you're saying he's not a policy wonk.
[ Laughter ] -Um, that's well said.
-That's accurate, yeah. -He's not rumpled, either.
-He's not rumpled. [ Laughter ]
-He's not rumpled or a policy wonk.
Something in between might work a little better.
-There's something in between.
I also want to ask about, you know, obviously
we're talking about these workers,
and not just the ones that are furloughed,
but as you mentioned, it's a domino effect
that knocks down a lot of other workers as well.
It seems as though the Democratic leadership position
right now is you can't give in to the President
on what he's asking for,
because he will continue to do it
if you cave and give him money for this.
-We've got to figure something out.
I mean, fundamentally, Mitch McConnell,
the leader of the Senate, has got to do his job.
We passed something about 30 days ago -- 32 days ago.
We passed a bill unanimously in the Senate
to keep the government open.
After the sort of Rush Limbaugh types came out against it,
the President changed his mind after promising to sign it,
and the government closed fundamentally.
And the fear that we have -- a lot of us have --
is if the President --
if Congress votes the $5 billion for the wall --
Now, this is probably a 25 to $30 billion project
to build the wall.
If we vote $5 billion now, the President
six months from now will shut the government down again
to get the next $5 billion.
And you can't run a country where the commander-in-chief
almost takes a perverse delight, as he kind of bragged,
in shutting the government down.
I mean, the term "shutting the government down"
makes no sense to anybody in this audience
and anybody in the country.
I mean, we need to do our jobs.
We need to show up to work like most people do in this country,
and open the government and move forward.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I --
I can only imagine how --
I can't imagine that Washington, D.C., right now
is a very exciting, or I should say, happy place to be.
Do you see -- is there optimism when you go out
on your tour right now?
I mean, are you feeling a hope from people?
-I feel an optimism in the country.
I think that there's sort of too much anger
coming out of the White House.
There's -- there are too many people running for office
that sort of express that anger.
And I think people look for a more optimistic --
I mean, the sort of happy warrior, let's --
you know, let's figure out how to do this together.
We've -- Congress passed a farm --
the Senate passed a farm bill
that's a bill to help clean up Lake Erie
and to provide food stamps and to develop rural areas
with broadband and to help family farmers.
We got 87 votes in the 100-person Senate.
We can do things bipartisanly
when Mitch McConnell or the President
doesn't get in the way,
and too many times that's happened.
-Well, I wish you the best of luck.
-Thank you. -And I celebrate your optimism.
And thank you so much for being here.
I really appreciate it. -Thanks.
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