[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 65 (Thursday, April 10, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H1568-H1569]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  (Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, in just 2 days, Wall Street 
lost $6 trillion in value in the worst selloff since 2020. Many of my 
constituents lost tens of thousands of dollars, money saved over 
decades.
  Now we are all scrambling with the news of a 90-day pause on tariffs 
after

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President Trump swore up and down he would do no such thing. Sadly, we 
cannot trust a word our President says, let alone plan around his 
erratic behavior. Mr. Trump's turbulent game of chicken with some of 
our closest allies is absurd.
  How does Mr. Trump expect people whose 401(k)s and kids' college 
savings accounts just took a nosedive to feel secure in their 
retirement? How does he expect people to save for retirement at all? 
The short answer is that the President does not know, and, even worse, 
he does not care.
  Mr. Speaker, the President lost $11 trillion in value in the first 11 
weeks of his second term. I call upon my Republican colleagues to 
please call out the President's destructive decisions. It is time to 
say that the emperor has no clothes.

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