« If Donald Trump lets the hard-right members of Congress and his Cabinet run the show . if he adopts their timeworn policies — which represent the elites, special interests and corporate America, not the working man and woman — his presidency will not succeed. »
The minority leader told the nearly empty chamber to watch Trump’s first two years in office closely.
« If the president-elect proposes legislation that achieves that — on issues like infrastructure, trade, and closing the carried interest loophole, for instance — we will work in good faith to perfect and, potentially, enact it, » he said. « When he doesn’t, we will resist. But what we will always do is hold the president-elect and his Republican colleagues in Congress accountable. »
« Look, I don’t know Donald Trump very well. I never played golf with him, I never had a meal with him. I’d cross his path at things in New York. But that’s going to have very little effect, » he added. « My guiding light is going to be the principles of our party and what I think are the right principles of our country: helping the middle class, helping those trying to get there. «
