Xavier Becerra: “I, too, will tell the Members that if I have $10 because I work for the government, and I got them because someone is…”

“I, too, will tell the Members that if I have $10 because I work for the government, and I got them because someone is working every day contributing to the social security trust fund for his or her retirement, I am not going to tell them, well, I am only taking one of your $10 you just gave me for your social security investment in retirement, and I am going to use this to give out tax cuts, mostly to folks who are better off and do not need to worry about your retirement the way you maybe do. So you keep your 9 and I get to spend your one. That is what we are talking about. And, by God, please do not tell me that they are willing to tell an American farmer that they are going to punish them because this Congress, some here, are willing to say that we want to help them in time of need because of the drought and because of floods and because of all that done through an act of God. But my colleagues on the other side are saying to them, no, we cannot let this Congress help them out in their time of need. But, by the way, we do have money, that $10 that they just gave in their contributions out of their paycheck every month, to take one of those $10 and give a tax cut 6 weeks before the election. We can do that. Punish the farmers for an act of God. Do not do that. And please do not punish seniors for the political acts of men in this House.”