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Jeff Merkley: “Let us give $1.5 trillion in the tax bill to the wealthiest Americans and proceed to cut our health...”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
Let us give $1.5 trillion in the tax bill to the wealthiest Americans and proceed to cut our health...
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley criticizes tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of health and education.

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