We had that wonderful moment in the previous State of the Union when the President talked about Republicans who wanted Medicare and Social Security cuts and they all rose in unanimous opprobrium to say, no, no, no, we don't do that.
Whitehouse recalls a moment of bipartisan agreement against cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
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I think the bottom line here is that there is an element of Trump wanting to sort of subjugate Republican senators here.
I have been pretty candid about my views about our Tax Code. I assert that our Tax Code has been corrupted by special interests.
I would just like to ask you if you would be willing to work with me, and I know Senator Wyden is interested in this on the Finance Committee as well, in a general look at how to do cliff smoothing.
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