Katherine Clark
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
So much woo, folks. This is a tough way to end the week if you're long the market. If you're long gold, you're happy. But Dow is losing about 724. The S&P down 113. The Nasdaq down 484. That will do it for us.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Oh, my goodness. Well, this is what happens when you take a economy and decide that you are going to further rig it against everyday working people and focus everything on taking away people's health care, veterans benefits, public schools. and give it all to the billionaire class for a tax cut that they won't notice and don't need.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And this ping pong of tariff policy going after our allies like Canada, abandoning Ukraine, taking away uh you know just our our place and moral authority in the world and just uh it is it is just shocking to watch but of course we are now seeing
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
consumer confidence at this historic low and we are then seeing the markets react to this tariff policy and we haven't even gotten to april 2nd when we're going to be seeing even more and all of this upheaval hits the very people at home who are struggling to buy groceries make a rent payment, find childcare, the hardest. And as you said, it is a cruel effect and it is cruel chaos by design.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Yeah. And I mean, these are, not only is it just bizarre, their foreign policy, but it is turning it all on its head. And my real fear is it is going to be generations for us to recover our place in this world, our leadership as a democracy that values the rule of law. And this sort of expansion policy, Denmark, Canada, they're now the enemies, the states that we have to draw a hard line with.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And we elected this strong man who rolls over on his back for Putin, abandons our democratic ally in Ukraine. and we're we're sending the vice president and his wife to a contained base in in greenland because the people of greenland don't want them outside of that base i mean what are we doing and it is all causing um not only us to becomes a country where people say we can't count on you
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
we can't count on you to be good economic partners to to be there if we need you for military aid we don't know what it means to you anymore to say that you're an ally and a trading partner and all of this again is going to come back and sit and impact the people who have the least defenses to deal with all of what is coming their way.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
An erosion of our democracy, but just this inability to be able to pay for the basics for their family. And while they're working hard and paying taxes, they are just shifting all of that wealth of hardworking people in this country to people who already have great wealth.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And when you're running an economic policy in a government just to increase wealth disparity in this country, these are the results you get. And who is going to be left to join the United States and say, we are here for you. We believe in the strength of your country. We believe in your moral clarity. We believe in the American dream.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
that you can be in this country and start from the most humble of roots and have opportunity. And you're just systematically taking that away from people. You take your public schools away, your veterans benefit, healthcare for kids, school lunches. And what are you left with? You're left with a hollowed out middle class and you're left with no opportunity for people.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And it's no wonder that we're seeing the overall economy follow hardworking families in this country into desperation about what the future is.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Oh, there is definitely a vibe shift and they are seeing it and feeling it too. And it was a remarkable statement from a president that usually isn't that transparent, but he's seeing exactly what we're seeing. He's seeing that down in Florida, one of those special elections is incredibly close when he won that district by over 30 points.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
As you noted, the state senator for the first time since 1889 flipping a seat in Pennsylvania, and that was preceded by one in Iowa in a very similar situation. And so he is looking at upstate New York where Lee Stefanik where her district is, that is dramatically impacted by all the harm they're doing to farming communities.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
The impact from the Canadian tariffs on energy costs in that district, and the fact that people of that district rely heavily on Medicaid for health care, which Elise Stefanik gleefully went and voted yes to take a huge chunk of that away from the people of her district. And so they're sending her home. But Elise Stefanik isn't going to save that district
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
from the damage they are doing to the American people and the awakening of voters that they have been had. They may have voted for Donald Trump, but he lied to them and has betrayed them. And so it is a real sign to me that they understand the very real electoral peril that they are in as they move forward.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And we are going to continue to draw that contrast, that we are fighting for veterans benefits, for school funding, for feeding hungry kids and seniors in this country. And we are going to do everything to stop them from taking that and further rigging our tax code against the average taxpayer, the 99% of Americans who work for a living.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Yeah, listen, our message is clear. We share your frustration, we share your anxiety, and we recognize the danger and the urgency of this moment. And we are going to use every strategy, every tactic, every pressure point we have to return the power to the people.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
to make sure that the priorities of hardworking families who are just trying to keep food on the table, make sure they have a roof over their kids' heads, and that they have a good public school and childcare they can find when they need it. And if their family gets sick, that that bill doesn't bankrupt them.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And we are going to work in many ways to reform, improve, create efficiency in government. There's much work we can do on that. But we have to protect these fundamentals and this power grab that we are seeing and so-called moderates in the House GOP whose allegiance has shifted from the very people that sent them to Congress wholly to Donald Trump.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
And loyalty tests don't work when you are nominating people to become Secretary of Defense that we've seen play out in a dangerous way to our national security this week. And it doesn't work when we're talking about those fundamental things people need to survive and then be able to build success and wealth for themselves. So we're going to use every tool we have
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
and be in this fight, whether it's in Congress, in the courts, or in our communities.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
I know, I'm so excited.