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“If he really wants to, he needs to send us the federal assistance — not only to Baltimore, to cities around this country that are in the same situation that Baltimore is in — but he’s so interested in childish tweets,” Young told CNN’s John Berman on “New Day.”
“I mean, if you want to help us, help us. Don’t talk about it, send the resources we need to rebuild America. He’s talking about he wants to ‘make American great again.’ Put the money in the cities that need it the most and that way you can make America great again,” said Young, a Democrat.
“And he had a pledge that he was going to do infrastructure — we’re still waiting on that,” he said, referring to a Trump 2016 campaign promise.
“We have an aging infrastructure in the city of Baltimore, but for an unfunded mandate by the EPA for us to correct it and we have to constantly raise water rates on the poor people of the city of Baltimore,” Young said.
The tweets from Trump on Saturday were widely condemned by Democrats and progressives, who lambasted the President for lodging attacks on a majority black city.
“He’s the most powerful man on the face of the earth as President of the United States of America. And this is below the President to do these kinds of things. He should be uniting this country instead of racially dividing us,” he said.
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