MANCHESTER – In an interview with WMUR’s Adam Sexton, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan discussed a wide range of pressing issues facing Granite State communities, including the need to lower costs, protect hard-earned benefits, and strengthen border security. Senator Hassan also emphasized the importance of standing against the Trump Administration’s broken promise to lower costs on Day One and its escalating attacks on due process and the rule of law that are preventing the important bipartisan work necessary to tackle rising costs and keep communities safe, secure, and free.
In case you missed it, watch Senator Hassan’s full appearance on CloseUp HERE and see below for some key moments:
Senator Hassan on the dangerous ongoing proposals from President Trump and Congressional Republicans to cut Medicaid: “What we're seeing is the Administration and Republicans proposing tax cuts for billionaires and corporate special interests... and they're proposing to pay for it with these drastic Medicaid cuts. So we're really speaking out against that, that would be incredibly harmful, not only to individuals but to our rural hospitals and to our economy.”
Senator Hassan on the Trump Administration’s escalating attacks on Social Security: “[Social Security] is a lifeline for our seniors and for people with disabilities. These are benefits that people have paid into and earned. The Administration needs to, full stop, stop targeting Social Security, and start working on the problems that the American people want them to work on.”
Senator Hassan on how the Trump Administration is undermining the ability to come together and find places to reduce government waste while tackling rising costs: “There are a group of us, bipartisan group, that have long held that there are ways we can cut federal spending, streamline services, that is work that I've done in a bipartisan way, but this President, along with Elon Musk, fired a whole bunch of the people who do that work. So, it's a really important time for Americans to come together, think about the challenges we need to address. Probably the one I hear the most about, affordability of the things that matter, right? Healthcare, education, housing, food, fuel, right? All of those things - we need to come together and we need to do some things differently, including the way our government functions, but we can't do that if we have a president who is undermining our government, taking away critical services just at a time when people need them, and imposing tariffs that are driving people's costs up.”
Senator Hassan on the devastating impacts of the President’s tariffs on New Hampshire businesses, families, and top issues like creating more affordable housing: “At the end of the day, this is, again, a broken promise from this President. He said he would lower costs on day one, he has not, and in fact these tariffs are driving costs up. And you know, when you talk to businesses, especially, you know, building suppliers for instance, they are talking about the fact that all of these building supplies, you know, windows, brackets, all kinds of supplies, the tariffs are driving these prices up. We have a housing crisis in New Hampshire and across the country. We need to be building more, not less, and the President's policies are making it more expensive.”
Senator Hassan on the importance of securing our border while also ensuring that this Administration is following the law and respecting due process: “We need to keep our borders secure, we need to listen to our frontline personnel at the border, whether they're in the immigration judge position, or they're a CBP officer, we need to make our port of entries technologically modern and up-to-date and we need to do more to fight fentanyl from coming across the border and the fentanyl precursors, but at the end of the day, that's about investing in the system, it doesn't mean taking away due process from people, which would prevent the kind of mistakes we are seeing this Administration make.”
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