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On the recordApril 4, 2025
Particularly when there is so much money to be made. So much flows through Social Security. If you take it over by wrecking it and then sending in your private-equity friends and tech bros to get it operational again and then let them slice off a share for themselves by privatizing either it or its operations, you have created a massive new revenue stream for the superrich. So with that, I see that there are a few colleagues on the other side who have come over. It may be that it is their turn. Senator Murphy, are you OK to yield the floor?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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