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Let's talk to two Democratic senators who are aggressively pushing back against Trump and Musk and Doge. Let's welcome Democratic senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, Democratic senator from Virginia, Tim Kaine. Senators, welcome both of your first times on the show, but let's get right into it right away. Senator Murphy, your response to
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all of the markets crashing right now, what Donald Trump's done with all of these tariffs against the world. He called it Liberation Day. We call it here Recession Day, Annihilation Day.
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What are you seeing? Yeah, I mean, listen, these guys are the Keystone Cops. You saw it last week with SignalGate. You're seeing it now with tariffs. These guys don't know how to run a country. They don't know how to run an economy. This is going to be an absolute disaster for consumers.

This week on the MeidasTouch Podcast, I had the privilege of sitting down with two of the most fired-up and fearless fighters in the U.S. Senate: Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. It was their first time on the show together, and these two came ready to fight.

We got right into it. While Trump and his billionaire cronies like Elon Musk are busy tanking the global economy and calling it “Liberation Day,” Senators Murphy and Kaine are calling it what it actually is: a full-blown recession in the making, designed not to help workers, but to punish Trump’s enemies and funnel wealth to his friends.

Murphy didn’t mince words. He laid out how Trump’s tariffs aren’t just bad policy—they’re intentional political weapons. If you’re a company that wants relief from Trump’s economic chaos? You’d better kiss the ring. Maybe buy some Trump Crypto Coin while you’re at it. This isn’t leadership. It’s mob-style corruption.

Kaine even gave Trump a new nickname: “Trumpelstiltskin.” Because instead of spinning straw into gold, he’s taking gold—a strong economy he inherited—and turning it into straw. The man is a chaos machine, and working Americans are paying the price.

But here’s the part that got me, and I think it’ll get you too: these Senators aren’t sitting around whining. They’re doing the work. Kaine’s using little-known Senate rules to force votes the Republicans can’t block. Murphy is ramping up content and town halls, meeting Trump’s volume with truth, clarity, and urgency. Their strategy? Flood the zone. Fight on every front. Never back down. It’s great to see that our voices are finally being heard in the halls of Congress.

Murphy put it perfectly: Everything Trump and his cronies are doing is about empowering oligarchs and silencing the rest of us. That’s why we need a mass mobilization—like what we saw in 2017 when we stopped them from repealing the Affordable Care Act. And guess what? We can do it again.

Kaine said it best: Come America’s 250th birthday in 2026, we’re going to celebrate democracy, not mourn its loss or suffer a dictator’s coronation. But that only happens if we fight. Every single day.

So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the nonstop chaos—don’t tune out. Tune in. Watch this interview. Share it. Let all your friends and family know about the MeidasTouch Podcast. And remember: the resistance is real, it’s growing, and as long as we stand together, they can’t defeat us.

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