[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 122 (Thursday, July 2, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                          Trump Administration

  Mr. President, governing is a matter of priorities. In this moment of 
national crisis, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, economic hardship 
deepens and the centuries-old struggle for racial justice is waged 
anew. Our national priorities have never been clearer to everyone, it 
seems, but President Trump.
  This week has been one of the most out-of-touch weeks of an out-of-
touch Presidency. As the citizens of ruby red Oklahoma voted to expand 
Medicaid, President Trump, this week, advanced his administration's 
lawsuit to eliminate our healthcare law and Medicaid expansion along 
with it. As protesters continued to march in the streets for racial 
justice, President Trump, this week, attacked a program designed to end 
racial segregation in housing. As the State of Mississippi decided to 
take down the Confederate flag, President Trump threatened to veto the 
national defense bill, including a pay raise for our troops, in the 
name of protecting the Confederacy.
  This week, the President of the United States seemed more concerned 
with protecting the names of dead Confederate generals than doing 
anything to help living American citizens. The President is so out of 
touch that it is as if he was dropped into the Oval Office from another 
planet, unaware and uncaring of anything going on around him. Whether 
it is the resurgent COVID killing Americans, a faltering economy, a 
righteous movement for racial justice, or Putin's malign actions 
endangering our troops, President Trump has the same reaction: stroke 
his own ego, then stick his head in the sand and do nothing.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.