Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro said that the Democrats in Washington should be more strategic in an attempt to extract a concession from the Congress under a republican conduction on the Government Financing Act, which passed last week, considering the debate that divided his party to her response to the program of President Donald Trump.
The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer (D., NY) met Intensive criticism from many in the Democratic Party – including selected officials and other party leaders – over his Vote on Friday in favor of the procedural means This allowed GOP to tidy the upper chamber and reach Trump’s desk.
Dissenters were itching the fight with Trump and preferred to rule the closing of what they perceived as the latest sign of the missing side in action, when the administration dismantled federal agencies, began a global trade war and tested the limits of executive power.
“I would like to see when Chuck Schumer had a lever here to say:” We need A, B, C and D for the Democratic Party “and forces the Republicans to meet him in the middle of these problems and provide something for people who are now worried,” Shapiro said on Friday. HBO Real time with Bill Maher.
Shapiro, the first democrat, who is widely seen as a probable presidential candidate in 2028, also used an interview to advertise his achievements in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and criticize Trump’s commercial policy, which, as he said, “raises costs for farmers and producers.”
Sometimes he rejected, including when Maher asked if teachers’ relationships – a key part of the democratic coalition – were responsible Long -term closure of the school during a pandemic. “Listen, we have established cooperation with our teachers in Pennsylvania to increase the number of teachers we have in class,” said Shapiro.
After the audience applauded Shapiro’s answer to the question Trump’s speech on Friday in the Department of JusticeMaher nodded in the governor’s aspirations to the higher office. “It is only March 2025,” said the main host. “You will be exhausted.”
Here are some of the most essential events in the interview.
Josh Shapiro regarding the Government Finance Act
Ten Democrats, including Schumer and US senator John Fetterman (D., Pa.), Voted on Friday behind the procedural means to develop an expenditure project known as a established resolution, which maintains the government financed until September. Senate He was finally approved, mainly along the party line, 54-46. The chamber has already passed, in which all democrats voted against him.
Schumer said he wanted to prevent closure to prevent Trump from obtaining even more power. “I’m not an expert on DC,” Shapiro said about the problem. “I try to stay as far as possible. I live in a real world in Pennsylvania, where we must balance budgets. “
After pressing the Governor, he said: “Schumer was an opportunity for more actions,” but he did not come to the details of financial negotiations. He added: “I think it is a false choice of suggesting that you need either/or – either you need this resistance, fight, this opposition, or you need to find ways to compromise and meet.”
“Stock exchange”
When Maher noticed that Trump had called for the “health revolution”, Shapiro argued that the president did not fulfill this promise.
“This is not common sense, what he did to press the button and start a tariff war with our two largest trading partners,” Shapiro said, adding that Pennsylvania’s dairy farmers were hurt.
“Now their products cost 25% more when they try to sell in Mexico. They lose their market share – he said. “This is the dance market. … it makes goods more. “
Cutting the Education Department
Last week, the US Education Department dismissed over 1,000 employees, or almost half of the staff. Trump said he wants to fully dismantle the agency and give more control over schools and parents.
“I have children who come from indigent families who rely on this financing from the federal government,” said Shapiro. He asked Trump’s effortsShapiro said the administration “does it wrong”.
“It is essential that we support the American people, not American institutions,” he said. “You are right that there are waste, there are fraud, there are abuse in these institutions that should be educated.”
The governor said as a former director of the council, he successfully reduced the prodigal expenses, but “he did not go with the ax.”
2024 Veepstakes and being a Jew
Maher noticed that after Kamala Harris gave Shapiro as her nominated vice president: “Many people said:” Well, the only reason why he did not get him was that he was a Jew, and on this party there was a wing, which was now very anti -izrael. “
“Which is a big change in my life, because the Democrats were a very proisrael place, and then everything was changed. Do you think it’s true? ” – asked Maher, adding that politicians applying for the president should” defend Jews, as, because I just feel that there are many on my fingers from this problem. “
“I said all the time that Kamala Harris had a deeply personal decision in this process. After all, I also said Shapiro. “I love to be Governor of Pennsylvania and I love to set out my own course and be able to serve people on my terms.”
“I am damn proud of my faith,” Shapiro added, not commenting on the gap of his party over Israel.
The governor said that the first television advertisement of her governorate campaign in 2022 showed her family sitting at the Shabbat table on Friday evening “Celebrating our faith”.
Voters answered heat, he said, sharing their own religious traditions with him. “People were more open because I showed them who I am,” he said.
Speech of the Trump Department of Justice
Maher raised Trump’s speech in the Department of Justice on FridayDuring which the president attacked former officials who unsuccessfully tried to chase him and said that “he would insist on full and full responsibility for the harm and abuse that took place.”
Shapiro said he didn’t see Trump’s comments, but even warned against the “appearance” of the policy in the accusation.
“You have power when you are a prosecutor to take someone’s freedom, take someone’s freedom, ruin their reputation and career. There can be no place for politics in this – he said during the panel discussion.
Asked by the panelist if it happened during Biden administration, Shapiro did not answer directly, saying that he was doing a “general point”.
