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On the recordAugust 10, 2020
It's absolutely correct. Republicans could care less at the end of the day about the national debt. And Exhibit A is the GOP tax scam that they passed in 2017 where 83 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest one percent in America without any credible justification.
Said by
Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Jeffries argues that Republicans are hypocritical about the national debt, citing the 2017 tax cuts that favored the wealthy.

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