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On the recordApril 4, 2025
I want to say thank you to the Senator from Oregon. I am grateful for your leadership in making sure that America understands exactly what the Republicans are up to and how they have just got one central mission; and that is, cut services for everybody else, cut all the things that ordinary folks depend on, so that they can deliver tax cuts for a handful of billionaires. It is obscene, and I appreciate how you point it out. I am here because ``co-Presidents'' Donald Trump and Elon Musk are taking a chain saw to our Federal Government, hurting families in Massachusetts and all across the country. You know, it is almost like they drew up a list of every program that families rely on, everything that is valuable to families, and then went through the list and said: Let's cut that. Let's cut that. Let's cut that. And why? To pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Grandma will have to drive hours if she has a problem with her Social Security check and needs someone to help her straighten it out. Why? Because Trump and Musk are closing the Social Security office in her neighborhood, and while they are at it, make it even harder by shutting down the phone lines.…
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Apr 4, 2025

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