Political Quotes

“And if I can reclaim my time for a moment and ask the Senator another question, it looks to me a bit like, as they are destroying Medicaid--which, as you pointed out, serves a quarter of American households and is essential to most households because it is granny's nursing home care, it is your sister's or wife's childbirth delivery in the hospital, or it is your colleague or friend or family member's opioid recovery treatment--swept away for unnecessary and unfair tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations. But then you move just beyond this immediate budget bill and you look over at what Elon Musk and his little ``Muskrats'' are doing to Social Security and what they are saying about Social Security, and it looks like not only do they want to gut Medicaid through this budget reconciliation bill, but they also are trying to wreck the administration and operations of Social Security, trying to clear out the workforce that makes it work, sending their creeps in to probe into the data systems that support it. Who knows what damage has been done to the data systems or what extraction of data has been done. We don't know. They have never answered questions. They lie and say it is a Ponzi scheme. They refer to it as riddled with fraud when there is almost no fraud at all--1 percent at best.…”