Roland Martin
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MLK Had a Dream. Trump Had a Scheme. Rep. Al Green Drops Receipts on Government Shutdown Cruelty.
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14:46Now PlayingRep. Al Green lays out the receipts from inside Congress: a government shutdown designed to hurt working families while shielding the wealthy.
He contrasts Dr. King’s dream with Trump’s scheme, calling the shutdown a “moral failure with a budget excuse.”
From $698 a day for the rich to 73 cents for workers, Green shows the math, the motive, and the moral collapse behind MAGA’s power play.
🔥 “Dr. King had a dream. The President had a scheme.” — Rep. Al Green
🔥 Green exposes how the shutdown targeted federal workers while protecting millionaire tax breaks.
🔥 Data receipts: top 0.1 % → $255,000 tax cut ($698/day); median worker → $265 ($0.73/day).
🔥 “When government fails on purpose, that’s not leadership — that’s cruelty.”
🔥 He calls the “non-essential worker” plan a scheme to fire public servants and shrink government by starvation.
🔥 Moral verdict: a shutdown built to harm those who keep the country running.
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