Frank Pallone: “I am so proud that the Democrats put forth a tax cut that spoke to tax cuts for the working-class families, those…”

“I am so proud that the Democrats put forth a tax cut that spoke to tax cuts for the working-class families, those families I represent in California. My families do not make much more than $26,000 a year. The Democratic tax cut speaks to that. But these charts really do show the disparity between the Democratic tax cuts and the Republican tax bill that absolutely does not speak to the working-class families who I represent. I was really taken aback as I looked at the Republican tax bill and saw that they had really snuffed out the $16 billion that we had put in for the children's health plan to really support at least half of the 10 million children who are uninsured. And we had initially said the $16 billion would at least help 5 million of those children. Now the Republican tax bill has taken that away, and the amount of money that will go for the few uninsured children, which is only about 100,000, will be sent to the States to let the Governors take hold of this. That is criminal at best because the Governors will not give that money to the children who need the health care.”