Bernie Sanders

Why do you think the Walton family needs a $52 billion tax break?

The bottom line is, tell me--let me get back to one question.

Do you really think it is a great idea to tell a low-income pregnant woman that you are going to take away the WIC program?

Your budget thinks that it is good public policy to provide $52 billion in tax breaks for the wealthiest family in this country.

The United States today has more income and wealth inequality than any major country on Earth.

The way to do that is to totally reject this budget and create a budget that works for working families in this country, not just the billionaire class.

The reality is that the budget that President Trump has proposed would break virtually every promise he made to working people of this country.

This is not a budget that takes on the political establishment. This is a budget of the political establishment.

This is a budget of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class.

When Donald Trump campaigned for President, he told the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he would take on the political and economic establishment, that he would stand up for working people, that he…

This is a budget that says that if you are the second wealthiest family in America, the Koch brothers--a family, by the way, that has contributed hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into the Republican Party--your family can get…

This is a budget which says that if you are the wealthiest family in America... you can get up to a $52 billion tax break through the repeal of the estate tax.

The Trump budget that was introduced this week constitutes a massive transfer of wealth from working families... to the top 1 percent.

The goal, again, should not be to cut pensions for Federal workers. It should be to raise pensions.

The answer is not to lower, in my mind, wages for Federal workers. It is to raise the wages of lower-income workers all over this country.

To my mind, and I think to most people's minds, that is a starvation wage.

Isn't that a little bit of a problem when you are dealing with a $600 billion-plus agency?

We do not want to see Government wasting money. We want programs run efficiently.

Poll after poll after poll shows this is exactly what the American people do not want.

The so-called Republican health care plan that the House recently passed really in all honesty is not a health care bill at all.

A 64-year-old with an income of $26,500 would see his or her premiums increase from $1,700 under current law to $14,600.

Medicaid would see cuts of more than $800 billion over the next decade, denying health insurance to 14 million Americans.

We are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all of our people.

What the CBO reported was that an additional 14 million people would be uninsured in 2018.

The American people do not believe that the wealthiest families in this country deserve incredible tax breaks while we cut programs that the working people of this country desperately need.