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On the recordFebruary 20, 2025
families lose, billionaires win. That is the proposition at the heart of the Republican budget resolution. Now, this plan is going to be explored tonight through a series of amendments. As the American people watch how we vote on these amendments, it will become clearer and clearer what it is all about; families lose, billionaires win. We will see tonight that Democrats vote against irreparable increases to the deficit, and Republicans vote to explode the deficit. We will see tonight, Democrats vote against tax giveaways to the billionaires, and Republicans vote for tax giveaways to the billionaires. We will see tonight, Democrats vote again and again to protect programs that support families while Republicans vote time and time again to slash those programs, those programs that families depend on to be on their feet and to thrive, to move into the middle class, to move beyond the middle class, to know with confidence that their children will have a strong foundation for growing up. That is what we will see tonight; families lose, and billionaires win. Democrats will fight this terrible vision for America in every single way we can. Now, our Republican colleagues earlier on the floor said: Oh, no, no. This bill is nothing except a little bit about border security and national security. If that were true, then why isn't this a conversation in the spending committee, the Appropriations Committee?…
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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Feb 20, 2025

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