During remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) spoke about President Trump's first 100 days in office.
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00:00Thank you, Mr. President.
00:01Mr. President, 100 days ago, Donald Trump proclaimed,
00:06the golden age of America begins now.
00:10But in 100 days, since Inauguration Day,
00:13King Donald has shown us that he sits on a throne of fool's gold,
00:20one built on empty boasts, unfulfilled promises,
00:24and lie after lie after lie.
00:30In just over three months,
00:32King Donald's reign has rained down chaos and corruption
00:36and cuts and crisis on the American people.
00:42And he is counting on you not to pay attention.
00:48He's hoping you don't notice that every day costs are rising,
00:55retirement savings are sinking,
00:57and families are living paycheck to paycheck,
01:02and they're bearing the burden of the Trump world.
01:07He's relying on all of us to roll over, accept his absolute rule,
01:12and let him and his caviar cabinet enjoy the circus
01:18while they pass a massive tax break for their billionaire buddies
01:24out of all of the programs that would serve every family in our country.
01:30So, to help us all keep track here on the 100th day of the Trump presidency,
01:39here are the 100 damages from Trump's 100 days.
01:44In his first 100 days,
01:47Donald Trump, number one,
01:50propped up big tech billionaires at his inauguration,
01:55right here in this building.
01:57Two, withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
02:03Number three, pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement
02:11to save our planet.
02:15Number four, created doge.
02:19Number five, called to end birthright citizenship
02:23through an executive order which is unlawful
02:27because it cannot override the Constitution of the United States.
02:33Number six, canceled nearly $400 million in funding
02:39to support communities' efforts to eliminate or reduce flood damage.
02:46Number seven, eliminated the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity,
02:52which addresses greenhouse gas emissions from the health sector
02:56and facilitates interagency coordination
02:59to address climate change impacts on the public health
03:03of all 330 million Americans.
03:07Number eight, he attacked clean car regulations
03:12that saved drivers money at the pump.
03:16Number nine, unleashed ICE at schools and hospitals and churches
03:24to threaten children and families.
03:29Number nine, disbanded the Office of Gun Violence Prevention,
03:34which championed the first federal gun safety legislation
03:38in more than 30 years.
03:41Number 11, repealed the Biden administration's AI protections
03:47for minority communities in our country.
03:51Number 12, he helped states refuse abortion care
03:56in life-threatening emergencies.
04:00Number 13, threatened to take over the Panama Canal.
04:07Number 14, he fired 18 inspectors general
04:11who worked to eliminate government waste and fraud and abuse.
04:16Number 15, threatened to use military action against Greenland
04:30to take it by force and violate its sovereignty.
04:3517, illegally fired two National Labor Relations Board officials.
04:4318, banned transgender Americans from serving in the United States military.
04:5419, restricted access to gender-affirming care.
05:0020, he froze the clean school bus rebate funding
05:06standing in the way of keeping our air clean for kids on buses in our country.
05:1421, spread misinformation about vaccines
05:17and risked the health of millions of Americans.
05:2320, he blamed a plane crash on DEI.
05:29Irresponsible.
05:3023, eliminated the public records office
05:35at the Centers for Disease Control.
05:3924, scrubbed health data related to HIV from the CDC website.
05:4625, allow DOGE access
05:50to sensitive Treasury Department information
05:55about all Americans.
05:5726, fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
06:03because he favors the interests of his billionaire buddies
06:07over those of American consumers.
06:1227, gutted federal protections for worker safety.
06:1928, scrubbed the mention of climate change
06:24from any federal agency in our country.
06:2929, froze $10 billion in disaster funding
06:35as part of a bogus investigation
06:38into non-profit support for undocumented immigrants.
06:4330, cut cancer research funding.
06:4830, cut diabetes research funding.
06:5530, cut HIV-AIDS research funding.
07:0330, cut heart disease research funding.
07:0730, cut heart disease research funding.
07:1130, cut mental health research funding.
07:1730, cut family caregiving research funding.
07:1830, cut family caregiving research funding.
07:2430, cut family caregiving research research funding.
07:2730, cut funding to recruit the next generation
07:32of health researchers putting years of innovation at risk.
07:3734, cut student research funding.
07:39Number 37, withdrew grant opportunities
07:40withdrew grant opportunities with the Office of Violence Against Women.
07:47Thirty-eight, threatened providers, hospitals, and community health centers because of the type of care which they provide.
07:58Number thirty-nine, froze funding for community health centers in our country.
08:06Number forty, ordered the suspension of EV charging funding.
08:13Number forty-one, tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
08:18Number forty-two, illegally rescinded $80 million in congressionally appropriated FEMA funding for New York City bank accounts.
08:31Number forty-three, fired and then rehired over 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration jeopardizing the security of the United States' nuclear stockpile.
08:47Number forty-four, threatened to take over Canada.
08:52Number forty-five, weakened NATO by cozying up to Russia and alienating our allies.
09:01Number forty-six, cut Alzheimer's research, delaying breakthroughs that could find a cure for this tragic and deadly disease.
09:12Number forty-seven, terminated the American Climate Corps.
09:18Number forty-eight, cut hundreds of employees from the FAA.
09:25Forty-nine, fired more than 200 probationary FEMA workers.
09:31And number fifty, fired more than 2,400 National Park Service workers nationwide, including at Minuteman National Park, Springfield Armory, and Cape Cod National Seashore.
09:51Number fifty-five, called to privatize the United States Postal Service, jeopardizing jobs and the fast, safe, and efficient delivery of our mail.
10:04Number fifty-two, fired workers responsible for answering the Veterans Administration crisis line.
10:12Number fifty-three, worked with Republicans in Congress to gut Medicaid.
10:19Fifty-four, terminated hundreds of VA contracts, including those in cancer research and suicide prevention.
10:29Fifty-five, fired more than 1,000 NOAA employees nationwide.
10:36Fifty-six, gutted USAID and halted global humanitarian assistance.
10:44Fifty-seven, fired 2,400 VA employees with plans to cut 80,000 additional VA employees.
10:56Fifty-eight, froze funding and canceled classes at the National Fire Academy.
11:04Fifty-nine, canceled the local food for schools and local purchase assistance programs at the United States Department of Agriculture,
11:14ending subsidies that go directly to farmers for schools and costing Massachusetts alone and our farmers 18 million dollars.
11:26Number sixty, ordered the closure of the environmental justice offices at the Environmental Protection Agency.
11:38And not just at headquarters, but at all the regional EPA offices as well.
11:45Sixty-one, froze and announced the termination of the Climate Bank, the Green Bank funding.
11:53Sixty-two, froze 20 million dollars in community change grant funding to improve air quality in Springfield, Massachusetts,
12:03the former asthma capital of the United States,
12:07and cut another one million dollars from Massachusetts Department of Public Health to combat asthma rates in Western Massachusetts.
12:16Sixty-three, eliminated the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
12:23Sixty-four, wiped the Surgeon General's advisory calling gun violence a public health crisis.
12:33Wiped.
12:35Sixty-five, called for the firing of judges who have disagreed with him,
12:40which clearly would violate the United States Constitution.
12:46Sixty-six, illegally fired the Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission.
12:53Sixty-seven, cut off legal representation for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.
13:03Sixty-eight, cut funding to fight the opioid epidemic in our country.
13:10It's still an epidemic.
13:12Sixty-nine, threatened to block a media merger if CBS didn't change its reporting.
13:21Seventy, gave Doge access to sensitive Small Business Administration data.
13:31Seventy-one, signal gate.
13:34Seventy-two, abducted Romesa Ozturk off the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts,
13:43a graduate student who I just visited in prison in Louisiana.
13:48The Trump administration has not charged her with a crime, has presented no evidence.
13:55The Trump administration must release Romesa now.
13:59Seventy-three, cut funding to help kids get vaccinated.
14:05Seventy-four, terminated collective bargaining for tens of thousands of federal workers.
14:13Seventy-five, called to end funding for the broadcasters of the public broadcasting system of our country.
14:22Seventy-six, cut off $106 million in education funds for Massachusetts.
14:33Seventy-seven, threatened a military attack against Iran, which could have set off a full-blown regional war in the Middle East.
14:44Seventy-eight, fired nearly everyone who works on the low-income heating assistance program and their federal staff.
14:56Fired nearly everyone.
14:59Seventy-nine, fired 870 workers at the National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health.
15:06Approximately two-thirds of their workforce.
15:10That's occupational safety and health.
15:13Eighty, cut funding for the Head Start program.
15:18Eight hundred thousand young people are in Head Start.
15:23Slash that funding.
15:25Eighty-one, canceled more than a thousand National Endowment for the Humanities grants, totaling more than $363 million.
15:37Eighty-two, delayed broadband grant funding.
15:42Eighty-three, allowed a measles epidemic to spread uncontrolled across our country.
15:51A measles epidemic in 2025.
15:54Eighty-four, eliminated more than $880 million in federal climate resilience aid that helps communities build disaster-resilient infrastructure.
16:06Eighty-five, opened America's public lands to new coal mining.
16:14Eighty-six, targeted state and local laws aimed at tackling the climate crisis.
16:22Eighty-seven, moved to end life-saving parole programs for Afghans and Ukrainians and Cubans and Haitians and Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
16:33Eighty-eight, moved to sunset critical environmental regulations.
16:40Eighty-nine, blocked $2.2 billion in federal grant funding to Harvard.
16:47Ninety, froze public safety grants for public broadcasters in our country.
16:54Ninety-one, halted federal leasing and permitting for wind projects in our country as they opened our public lands for coal mining.
17:08Ninety-two, gutted permitting processes in order to fast-track dirty energy projects to reward his big oil and gas and coal cronies.
17:21Ninety-three, canceled $90 million in disaster prevention funding to Massachusetts alone.
17:31Ninety-four, put all staff on the U.S. Interagency Council on homelessness on administrative leave,
17:40essentially shutting down the agency that works on homelessness in our nation.
17:48Ninety-five, suspended food safety inspections after firing the Food and Drug Administration workers.
17:58Food safety inspections, suspended in our country in 2025.
18:06Ninety-six, terminated $400 million in grants for AmeriCorps.
18:13Ninety-seven, suspended refugee resettlement in our country for the first time.
18:21Ninety-eight, arrested Judge Hannah Dugan, alleged that she helped an undocumented man avoid immigration enforcement.
18:33Ninety-nine, increased funding for the Sentinel ICBM program, which, as it increases the risk of accidental launch, makes nuclear war more likely on our planet.
18:48Ninety-one, hundred deported children who are United States citizens.
18:57One hundred days, one hundred damages.
19:01This is where our country is right now.
19:06And this is what we must stand up and fight to prevent from becoming any worse.
19:14So I thank you, Mr. President, and I yield back.
19:19And I yield back.