[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 164 (Thursday, October 17, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5858]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, one final note. Today marks 1,000 days of 
President Trump's time in office. If we were to summarize his 
administration over the last 2\1/2\ years in a single phrase, it would 
be this: broken promises to working people.
  When Candidate Trump ran for office, he promised to drain the swamp, 
but after 1,000 days as President, this place is the swampiest it has 
ever been, with conflicts of interest crippling this administration and 
inexperienced billionaires running our government.
  Candidate Trump promised health insurance for everybody, but after 
1,000 days as President, costs are higher, coverage is skimpier, and 
his administration is suing to repeal the healthcare we have in place 
and send prices skyrocketing for millions.
  President Trump promised a tax bill that would be a middle-class 
miracle, but the only miracle this has been has been to corporate 
America, which uses it for stock buybacks instead of increasing 
salaries for their workers, increasing their investments in plant and 
equipment. So much of these tax breaks went to buybacks. Shame.
  One thousand days in, President Trump has failed to follow through on 
promise after promise to working Americans, but he isn't the only one 
at fault. Democrats have fought to do the work of the American people, 
but as the House passes things, Leader McConnell and my Senate 
Republican colleagues have simply turned this Chamber into a 
legislative graveyard, where good ideas that would help the middle 
class and those trying to get to the middle class just come to die.
  We could be reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act; we could be 
voting on election security; we could be voting on background checks, 
but Leader McConnell has buried hundreds of House bills in his 
legislative graveyard.
  After 1,000 days since President Trump took office, he and his 
Republican colleagues have made clear whose side they are on. If you 
are ultrarich, you are very powerful, you have great connections, it 
has been a great few years, but for everyone else, it has been a string 
of disappointing, broken, and heartbreaking promises. Come next year, 
the American people will have a chance to vote for real change.
  I yield the floor.

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