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🗓️ 23 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey, good morning. It's Sunday, March 23rd. It's day 63 of Donald Trump's second administration. |
0:12.3 | When Donald Trump entered office for the first time, he was met with the resistance. |
0:16.6 | One day after his inauguration in 2017, take a look at this. |
0:19.9 | Millions of people across the United States participated in the women's march to protest basically everything that Trump stood for. |
0:27.6 | About 500,000 people turned out for the main march in Washington, D.C. alone. |
0:32.7 | Another 3 to 4 million people took to the streets in sister marches across the country. |
0:37.7 | It was the largest single-day protest in American history. |
0:41.9 | Fast forward eight years to this January on the weekend before Trump's second inauguration, |
0:46.3 | the women's march had become the people's march. |
0:49.0 | But the turnout was much smaller. |
0:51.0 | The effort was a lot more modest. |
0:53.2 | The muted response in the months between election |
0:55.0 | day and inauguration day had many disappointed and frightened. A lot of people were wondering if their |
0:59.8 | fellow citizens just felt too defeated and impotent. Some felt too scared to join a protest as a |
1:06.1 | wannabe authoritarian returned to power promising to shut down dissent and exact revenge against his political |
1:11.7 | opponents. But as the second Trump administration got down to business and enlisted Trump's |
1:17.0 | billionaire buddy Elon Musk to help gut the civil service, Americans perked up. People began contacting |
1:23.7 | their representatives. There were reports that numerous Congress members' phone lines were ringing |
1:27.4 | nonstop. Their voicemail boxes were full. And the protests have grown. They've continued |
1:32.8 | in support of federal workers, immigrants, the LGBTQ plus community, veterans, scientists, the environment, |
1:38.6 | the people of Ukraine, the people of Gaza. The list goes on and on and on. Many people have also turned up at town halls, especially those held by Republicans, to voice their anger and distress about what this administration is doing and the lack of pushback from Congress. |
1:55.3 | My question, sir, and I think what's on our mind here is where is Congress? |
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