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On the recordDecember 12, 2017
Mr. Speaker, it is important to note here--I think my memory is correct on this--that the $1.5 trillion in debt which will be generated by this tax giveaway is exactly the same number that they cut from Medicare and Medicaid in the budget they just voted on. So we don't have to wonder whether that is the plan. They have already done it in the budget that they have proposed. And as you said, the Speaker, Senator Rubio, and others have already acknowledged this. So this should be clear. We are going to vote, and have already voted, to give a tax cut
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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