Amy Klobuchar: “I am proud to follow my colleague from Michigan, who, of course, has served herself. Then I am also proud to be here…”

“I am proud to follow my colleague from Michigan, who, of course, has served herself. Then I am also proud to be here with Senator Rosen of Nevada, and there are so many veterans in Nevada. We rise today to urge our colleagues to oppose this budget. A budget is a statement of priorities, and our priorities should be helping people who are the hard-working people of this country, particularly those who have served our Nation, and not giving two-thirds of the tax cuts to a bunch of wealthy, wealthy people and big corporations. That, sadly, is what is in front of us today. Of course, the whole situation is exacerbated by the Trump tariff tax, which amounts to $4,000 per family every year, $20,000 more on a new home--really a problem for young people--and $3,000 more on a car. That is what we are dealing with right now. But our focus, right at this moment, is on our veterans. When our veterans signed up to serve our Nation, there was no waiting line. And when they come home to the United States of America and they need a job or they need an education or they need to get healthcare, there should never be a waiting line in the United States of America. We have worked so hard from way back to the fiasco at Walter Reed, after we added new veterans into our healthcare system--after Afghanistan, after Iraq--to upgrade the benefits for our veterans, to upgrade the kind of services they have gotten.…”