Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I actually think you are being presumptuous because you touched a nerve when you said you think the Republicans lost…”

“I actually think you are being presumptuous because you touched a nerve when you said you think the Republicans lost touch along the way at some point. That presumes that they were ever in touch because when we listen to remarks on the floor of this House where commentary is made that, for example, people who make $40,000 a year do not pay taxes, when you know you pay upwards of $50 to fill up a gas tank, you scratch your head and wonder, who pumps their gas? When you cannot determine whether they know what the cost of groceries are, are they shopping for food? Who is talking to them in their districts? Are they driven around in limousines? Because all of the indicators, their desire to maintain tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, all of the indicators are there that they really are that out of touch. I mean, just to have it stated on the floor of this House that people who make $40,000 do not pay taxes, that is just unbelievable. But then just take the tax cut bill, the rubber-stamp Republican Congress, literally and the walk down memory lane that we have been going through turned the projected $5.6 trillion record surplus into a record deficit of $3.2 trillion. The President has quadrupled our debt held by China. The tax bill that was signed, Americans making $20,000 annually get $2 and Americans making $40,000 get $16.”