The following is an interview transcript with Democrat Rape Tom Suzozi in New York, which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brainon” on 6 July 2025.
Vejia Jiang: We now turn to New York Democratic Congress Tom Suzozi. Congressman, thank you very much for your time this morning.
Rape. Tom Suzozi: Yes, thank you very much for my being.
Weijia Jiang: Well, you only heard from Kevin Haset- You know, like President Trump, he said, without this bill, it will be one of the greatest tax growth for the American public. They say that this is the biggest tax cut in American history. You sit on the methods and instruments committee, so I will be surprised how you describe it.
Rape. Suozzi: I describe it as a big, ugly bill, not ‘big, beautiful bills.’ It is going to do many things that are going to hurt many people in our country. The biggest one, about whom you talked to Mr. Haset, is increasing the deficit in the country. And whatever it does is that inflation arises, which keeps the interest rates high, making people difficult to buy, making it difficult for them to borrow money for them to do what they want to do. In addition, it is going to knock a group of people away from health care. We know that Republican has tried to undo the Affordable Care Act- Obamacare for a decade, and it is like a back door to take health insurance away from those who actually need the most here in our nation. And it is causing health insurance costs for many people. One of the biggest issues of the President, on which he campaigned, was rapidly reducing prices during the day, we are going to cut the cost. Well, the cost is not decreasing, inflation- inflation is going to be affected by this deficit. Interest rates are going to be high, and it is negatively impacting health insurance costs for many people in our country.
Weijia Jiang: I know that you just bring the potential loss of medicade and coverage. What do you say to some Americans, who can be surprised, well, why should the competent body not work to reach the Medicade?
Rape. Suozzi: Well, you have to understand that 92% of people who are able to work, are currently working, and 8% who are often not people who are taking care of disabled children. Remember that two -thirds of people in the nursing home are on the Medicade. One-tenth of all the veterans of the United States is on Medicade. Medicade is a lifeline for so many people who are facing difficult situations that we cannot even imagine. And why do we be taking health insurance and food benefits from some most needy Americans, while whatever we are believing is an unnecessary break for some of the wealthiest Americans. It is not just understanding that you are reducing taxes for some richest people, hurting some of the lowest income, while we have the biggest deficit in the budget we have made in the history of the country. Those things are not just added.
Weijia Jiang: Okay, last week, you said that you agree with 75% in this package, this is a very important number. So why is it not worth 25% that you don’t like?
Rape. Suozzi: Because the things I have just mentioned are very destructive. I like the idea that we are investing more money to secure the border. I like the idea that we are providing tax breaks to low -income people and middle class people and middle class interested people. I like the idea of ​​providing tax breaks for those people. But why are we providing- and when the economy has been doing in the last several years, why would we provide a lack of tax for some of our country’s wealthiest Americans, while making large-scale holes in losses?
Vejia Jiang: Congressman, I want to turn to an op-ed that you wrote in The Wall Street Journal last week, saying that Zoharan Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic Meerl Primary in New York City should be a quote, ‘Loud wake up call for the democrats.’ What do you think your party can learn from your campaign?
Rape. Suozzi: Okay, you know, I disagree with Mr. Mamdani. I have to clarify that, you know, I am a democratic capitalist. I am not a Democratic Socialist. And- But you have to identify that he tapped into something. He tapped into the same thing that Donald Trump tapped, which is that people are worried that the economy is not working for him. Strength and economy is the number one issue in the country. And very often, the democrats are not focused on the power and economy and middle class, and the middle class and the people who aspire for their economic concerns. They see Democrats mainly focusing on reproductive rights and LGBT security, which are important issues, but are not those issues that people think about every night when they are thinking about paying their bills on bed or when they are talking about how they are going to send their children to school. So Democrats have got to learn better work from both Trump and Mamdani, which is not with their solutions, which I think is wrong, but with the diagnosis of the problem that we are disappointed, we are worried. Everyone in America, whether you are a right -wing conservative or a leftist progressive, should believe that in exchange for hard work, you earn enough money so that you can live a good life. You can buy a house, you can educate your children, you can pay for your health insurance, you can retire a day without any fear. People do not feel that in the present, and we have to do a better job of telling it.
Weijia Jiang: Okay, I am glad you bring out this notion, as you also wrote that ‘Democrats should recognize the beginning of the future with the message of economic security for American families’. I covered the Biden campaign. I covered the Harris campaign. He was the center of his messages. So what is the problem here? Is this a messenger? Is this a message? Because they already have that message.
Rape. Suozzi: This is a combination. Number- The Democratic party should have this platform as a whole that focuses on what people care. They care about the economy, they care about immigration, they care about taxes, they care about crime, they care about health care. But then we have to identify that the media infrastructure has been fractured, and Trump revealed before the Democrat was passed, that it is not a traditional media like your show and newspapers, but it is social media. This is podcast. Podcast, top 500 podcasts in the US, 400 out of the top 500 are correct inclination. 100 tilt is left. And bending in 100, half of them defeated, you know what, out of the Democrat. Then you have other national media, and then you have some of this ethnic and underground media that belong to WeChat and WhatsApp and different types of apps that people use. So we have to communicate on all those platforms, because people are receiving their messages in these fragmented environment and are living in these echo rooms, and we have to do a better job to communicate in all these platforms and to get a democrats to focus on the economy, immigration, ET Cetera.
Vejia Jiang: Okay, Congressman, we are all trying to learn all those new languages. Thank you very much for your time this morning. And we will return with a lot of nation. stay with us.
