Democratic response blasts 'mindless' firings and tax 'givaways'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : 'America wants change, but there's a responsible way to make change and a reckless way, and we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy,' she said from Wyandotte, Michigan, a town both she and Trump carried in November.
38% : Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, who elevated her, called her 'nothing short of a rising star in our party.' Her state is impacted by the 25 percent tariffs Trump slapped on Mexico and Canada.
36% : On immigration, an issue that helped propel Trump to the White House, she may have left a door open to compromise.
32% : She called for a tax system that doesn't cater to people who 'don't happen to make a bill dollars' and slammed an 'unprecedented giveaway to [Trump's] billionaire friends.' Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) stressed bipartisan and kitchen table issues in the Democratic response, while hammering Trump for his Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian president and for Elon Musk's exploits 'Grocery and home prices are going up, not down, and he hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either those.
28% : And Trump has been going around them - and sometimes the courts or other guardrails - with a slew of executive orders that has left the party deflated.
21% : But her remarks spelled out one way for Democrats to try to win with a more centrist approach even while throttling Trump for some of his actions - after Trump attacked their party leaders during his speech and bragged about winning every battleground state.
20% : She said Trump 'stole' his 'peace through strength' line from Ronald Reagan, that hit him for backing away from Ukraine, after Trump sparred with Democrats inside the House chamber over keeping the funding pipeline going.
13% : Slotkin narrowly edged Trump-backed former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers in the November elections, beating him by less than 20,000 votes in a state Trump carried.
11% : Slotkin hammered Trump on kitchen table issues and stressed bipartisanship, even putting in a hat tip to Ronald Reagan.
10% : His tariffs on allies like Canada will raise prices on energy, lumber and cars and start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers.' Slotkin stressed many of the issues like inflation that Trump himself ran on.
10% : Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.) got booted from the House chamber after heckling Trump in protest.

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