Political Quotes

“I am joining my colleagues today because Nevada's healthcare and America's healthcare is really not up for negotiation. On Wednesday--and I want to recognize this--Senate Republicans released their budget plan to pay for President Trump's billionaire tax cuts. You have heard everybody talking about that. We have been on the floor. This is so important for the American public to understand what is at stake because, really, we can't let them fool you with some bureaucratic language to make them seem less devastating than these impacts really are or to use some sort of math gimmick. Here are the facts--and let me say, on April 3, 2025, we just received from the Joint Committee on Taxation that which shows that President Trump and his Republican followers in the Senate really want to add almost $7 trillion to our national debt. The Republican plan to extend the 2017 Trump tax law will cost $5.5 trillion, including interest, and the budget resolution Senate Republicans introduced this week allocates an additional $1.5 trillion for tax breaks to be crafted by the Finance Committee, Republicans, and the Trump administration. This brings a total cost for over 10 years of the Republican tax plan to about $7 trillion--$7 trillion in deficit and debt. They are doing this to give tax cuts to billionaires. In order to pay for it, one of the things--and you are hearing us talk about this--is they want to slash Medicaid in this country by almost $1 trillion.…”