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Joaquin Castro: That is right. You bring up a great point, and then I want to talk real quick about the budget. There is this underlying…

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
That is right. You bring up a great point, and then I want to talk real quick about the budget. There is this underlying tone from the President and from other politicians that some of the folks who are on Medicaid are somehow undeserving, that they are somehow freeloading, and that is just not the case. It is a complete misunderstanding of who these Americans are. We talk about how healthcare failed. It seems like the President promised healthcare, but it didn't happen. One of the things that they wanted to do before healthcare, which hasn't happened either, was tax reform. That is going to be very difficult, especially when one of the foundations of your new tax plan is giving a tax cut to the wealthiest folks, literally who need it the least, but it raises a question of the budget and what the budget does for the American people.
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Joaquin Castro
Democratic · Texas
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Jul 18, 2017

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