Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) likened the country's current state to “an angry teen years,” and said he hopes it will be alive and lively for the next few years.
“We're about to turn 250, right? Slotkin, who recently responded to President Trump's Congress speech, said in an interview with ABC on Tuesday's “views.”
“These are our angry teen years,” she continued. “We're going through this push and pull. We're happy, we're sad. We want this, we want it.”
“And what do you do when you have teenagers who are threatening themselves and others? She just tries to keep this period alive so that their brains are fully formed,” she says, adding that when asked, she wasn't talking specifically about Trump, but not about the country more widely.
“We're swinging the pendulum, we're swinging the pendulum, and I don't think there's one American who feels this is normal,” the Michigan senator said.
The exchange came amid a discussion of Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) turmoil during Trump's speech before the Congressional joint session. That moment saw lawmakers split and criticised many Democrats for whether or not his actions were appropriate.
Some argue that Greene has crossed the line and made it even more visible to the president by engaging in what Trump describes as a trivial act. Others say that Greene is right to pay attention to reducing GOP spending. It says that nonpartisan estimates require cuts in the qualification program, despite the president's pledge not to touch on these interests.
Slotkin was asked if he thought the state of the country would amount to “five alarm fires,” as previously stated by Carine Jean Pierre, a spokesman for the Biden administration.
“I think you just talked about it this morning what the president is doing with our economy – sorry, people may not know the federal budget. They know the budget for their homes and know exactly how much they are spending,” Slotkin responded.
“So, whether it's the economy, whether it's our national security, whether it's ours, whether it's our national security, whether it's cutting off those who keep us safe, and whether it's a place like Ukraine to a guy like Putin, whether it's our democracy, right – a threat to who we are as democracy, we think we need an extraordinary response,” she added.
