Political Quotes

“Mr. President, throughout these 25 hours of debate, there has been one theme that no Member of this body should forget, that no American should forget because it is the heart of this bill. And what is the heart of the bill? Families lose, and billionaires win. This bill features $2 trillion in cuts to core programs in healthcare, housing, and education--the programs that help families stand on their feet and thrive and move into the middle class and succeed and their children succeed and the next generation. But, no, my Republican colleagues say: Slash those programs because they are not the folks who power our campaigns. We don't care about the families struggling to succeed. Well, no, what we care about are the billionaires, so we wrote this bill for billionaires. Just how much? Well, that $2 trillion funds tax breaks for the richest Americans. And then because that is not enough, this bill borrows $37 trillion over 30 years to fund additional tax breaks--$37 trillion in debt. Cuts to programs for families to fund tax giveaways to the richest Americans--that is what this is about. If you care about healthcare across America, if you know that Medicaid provides--well, in my State, about a third of our citizens have health insurance through Medicaid. Our rural clinics and our rural hospitals do far better. And why do they do far better with Medicaid? Because patients can pay bills because they have health insurance.…”