Tim Ryan: “Well, let us look. My friend brings up Iraq, which is a perfect example. We just talked about corporate welfare to the…”

“Well, let us look. My friend brings up Iraq, which is a perfect example. We just talked about corporate welfare to the oil companies; corporate welfare to pharmaceutical companies; tax cuts that go primarily to those people who make over a million dollars a year. And this President does not have the guts, and the Republican Congress, they do not have the guts to ask the wealthiest people in the country to contribute. Two wars and major natural disasters, poverty is increasing, the tuition cost has doubled over the last 4 or 5 years, and this Republican Congress, they do not have the guts to go ask the billionaires in the country to contribute. But we are going to give them public tax dollars to support their corporations. But there is more welfare going on. Iraq has become a United States welfare state. Look what is going on here. 110 primary care centers built in Iraq with American tax dollars. Okay. 2,000 health educators trained with the American tax dollar. 3.2 million children vaccinated in Iraq with the American tax dollar. Great. Super. We went in there, we broke Iraq, we buy it. That is our responsibility. But back at the ranch, $10 billion-plus, as I have talked to a few of our friends on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, $10 billion-plus cuts in Medicaid for American kids. American citizens. $252 million cut for health care professionals; $94 million cut for community health centers in the United States of America. Student loans.…”