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Elizabeth Warren: “Look, giving away a trillion and a half-dollars to corporations, to billionaires, to the wealthy and well-connected…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2019
Look, giving away a trillion and a half-dollars to corporations, to billionaires, to the wealthy and well-connected, while young people are struggling with student loan debt, while families can't have prescriptions filled, while infrastructure crumbles around us, that's not how we build a future in this country.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes the tax cuts for benefiting the wealthy while neglecting the struggles of average Americans.

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