For
Immediate Release
January 30, 2018
Contact:
Marcus Mrowka 202-531-0689 mmrowka@aft.org www.aft.org |
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on President Trump’s
State of the Union Address
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Washington—Statement
of AFT President Randi Weingarten on President Trump’s State of the Union
address. Weingarten attended the address as a guest of House Democratic
Leader Nancy Pelosi.
“The test
of any president is whether he can unite a country and enact policies that
enable broad-based opportunity. On that measure, President Trump’s inaugural
State of the Union failed. Sadly, the high points—of lifting up American stories,
as every modern president has done and mentioning a litany of one-liners on
promoting infrastructure, vocational education and paid leave and taking on
the opioid crisis and escalating drug prices—were overtaken by ugly
fear-mongering about immigrants and federal workers.
“For anyone
who believes that America is a nation of immigrants, that Dreamers should
have a home in this country, that workers’ wages should rise, that the rich
should not be the biggest winners in the economy, that college and healthcare
should be affordable, and that kids should have a ladder of opportunity, you
didn’t get that tonight.”
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