Speaker
Josh Shapiro
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1 episodes
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Governor Shapiro noted Trump has made $2 billion during his presidency, including from crypto schemes and Mar-a-Lago, while investors in those schemes lose equivalent amounts.
Governor Shapiro warned that over 510,000 Pennsylvanians will lose healthcare as a result of Trump's big bill, with about 150,000 already losing coverage.
Shapiro said about 90,000 Pennsylvanians have already lost SNAP food assistance, with an estimated 140,000 total expected to lose it once the full damage of the Trump bill is tallied.
Governor Shapiro invoked Ben Franklin's famous exchange at Independence Hall, arguing that citizens bear the unique responsibility to protect American democracy.
Shapiro's kids have grown up watching cruelty, mockery of disabled people, and personal attacks normalized by the president of the United States. He says it will take real time for this generation to recover — and J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio may extend the damage further.
Standing at Independence Hall, Shapiro recounted a woman asking Franklin after the Constitutional Convention: 'What do we have, a monarchy or a republic?' Franklin's answer — 'A republic, if you can keep it' — puts the responsibility squarely on citizens. Shapiro says that moment is now.
Trump's approval in Pennsylvania has cratered to 29%, down 10 points from 39% in March per a Franklin and Marshall College poll. His net approval is negative 22 points, and his handling of inflation — the top voter concern — has fallen to just 17% positive.
When a president is laser-focused on personal enrichment, policy stops serving the people. Trump picks winners based on what benefits his family, not the country — and that distortion has a direct, measurable cost to every American.
The Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision is one of the worst rulings in the past century, according to Shapiro. It has handed Trump a blank check to self-enrich from the Oval Office with no legal consequence — and Shapiro says a 28th Amendment may be the only fix.
A rare bipartisan housing affordability bill was set for signing on the eve of America's 250th birthday — then Trump pulled out at the last minute, reportedly calling it a 'yawn.' Instead he pushed election nationalization conspiracy theories. Shapiro calls it a betrayal of the American people.
When asked by reporters about truckers at risk of losing jobs to AI, Trump insisted they're fine — 'we have the highest job numbers ever.' The very next day, the jobs report showed only 57,000 new jobs, less than half of what economists expected.
Filmed at Independence Hall, Shapiro's July 4th address warns that the chaos, cruelty, and corruption being injected into American democracy are testing the guardrails established 250 years ago. American freedom, he argues, is not the product of a single man's actions — it requires all of us.
Shapiro frames the upcoming midterms as a national referendum on Trump's chaos, cruelty, and corruption. If Americans show up in every district as polling suggests they're poised to do, Congress can finally act as a constitutional check on the executive branch.
While Trump has pocketed roughly $2 billion since taking office through crypto schemes and Mar-a-Lago, the investors in those schemes have lost equivalent amounts. It's a zero-sum meme-coin game — one winner, millions of losers.
The latest jobs report came in at just 57,000 — less than half the 115,000 economists expected. April was revised down 31,000, May down 43,000. Outside of healthcare, the only sector adding jobs is one Trump is actively cutting.
To fund a tax cut for the wealthy, Trump's bill will strip healthcare from over 510,000 Pennsylvanians and food assistance from 140,000. About 150,000 have already lost their healthcare and 90,000 their SNAP benefits. This is not theoretical — it is already happening.
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- Government 55%
- Society & Culture 18%
- Business 9%
- Health & Fitness 9%
- History 9%
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