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On the recordFebruary 10, 2020
thank you, and I thank the Republican leader. Last month, while this body was trying, as we know--and failing--to hold the President accountable for betraying the American people, President Trump went to Davos, and he doubled down on another betrayal of the American people. While he was hobnobbing with the global elite in Switzerland, he let slip his plan, after his tax handouts to billionaires and corporations blew up the deficit--we know deficits now. Thanks to Republican governing, thanks to this President's tax cut and my Republican colleagues going along with this tax cut that went overwhelmingly to the wealthiest people in this country, the budget deficit has just skyrocketed. We know all that. President Trump now wants to pay for it by cutting Social Security and Medicare. He wants to pay for it by cutting Social Security and Medicare. Today we got President Trump's budget. This document makes it clear how he wants to pay for his tax scam--on the backs of working families and seniors. I want to start with one that is of special interest in Ohio. We all know that just in the last 2 or 3 years--well, starting soon after President Trump was elected and then over about a year-and-a-half period, the Lordstown auto plant--about 4,500 jobs--shut down. President Trump had promised those workers--he said to Mahoning Valley: Don't sell your homes. These jobs are coming back. This is going to work for us. And then the President Trump did absolutely nothing.…
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio
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Feb 10, 2020

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