It’s a shame that so much of this drama has been played out in the public square, so to speak. But I do believe, as with the American Rescue Plan, and as with other things, that we will rally around an agenda that allows us to meet this moment.
Jones reflects on the public discourse surrounding the economic agenda and expresses hope for unity among Democrats.
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Well, we should take very seriously what Donald Trump says. He says he wants to terminate the Constitution.
We don't ever want to get to a place in the United States of America where the executive branch is able to do whatever it wants to do, and that the law doesn't matter anymore.
Growing up, like many people in this room, I suspect, I watched as mostly--as straight politicians, many of them White, many of them men, used my basic human rights as a political football to further their careers.
We waited way too long to be tough on the border, to take seriously the migrant crisis and to act to secure the border.
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