Bernie Sanders

I believe that what we are going to be looking at are proposals way, way, way out of touch with where the American people are and where they want to go.

This really is a prescription for more inequality in America.

Growth and job creation is the same thing. It is no longer the case.

It is just a war on the young who are going to have a hard enough time finding jobs.

Tax cuts are not useful when they open up big budget deficits, reducing national saving rates.

Both parties have been irresponsible in managing the public sector for 40 years.

And, coincidentally, last but not least, Donald Trump's own family will get a tax break of up to $4 billion.

Sheldon Adelson, who only put $5 million into the President's inaugural program, will get a tax break of up to $12.6 billion.

The Koch brothers, our good friends who fund much of the Republican Party, would get a tax break, their family would get a tax break of up to $35 billion.

We cannot afford Head Start, child care, after-school programs, but we can afford to give $53 billion in tax breaks to one family.

At a time of massive wealth inequality--this is unbelievable--Trump wants to repeal the estate tax for people who have over $5.4 million in wealth, a $353 billion tax giveaway to the richest two-tenths of 1 percent.

But when you propose a budget which increases military spending by $84 billion over 2 years while slashing program after program that addresses needs of working families, of the elderly, the children, and the poor, you are not addressing…

This is unprecedented.

It has now been 7 long weeks since the Trump administration came out with its budget, and yet our committee has not held a single hearing on what he has proposed.

I think that the Koch brothers get about a $30 billion--their family will get a $30 billion tax break.

I have just introduced an idea that Dr. Hall has confirmed is accurate, and that if we go the approach that I suggested, you do not have to cut Social Security benefits.

I would hope that we can do that. But it is important for you and others to say we will not cut Social Security benefits.

If the chairman now wants to say that he believes we should not cut Social Security, I would love to hear him say that, not cut Social Security benefits.

Do we have the guts to tell the billionaire class who are doing phenomenally well that they are going to have to pay more in taxes?

If you lift the cap on taxable income from people making $250,000 a year or more, you can extend the life of Social Security for 50 years.

I would hope that my Republican colleagues would respect the words of President Trump when he ran for office when he said exactly the opposite.

The very, very rich are getting richer; the middle class is shrinking; 43 million people living in poverty.

We went into a war in Iraq that some of us voted against, some of us voted for; that we gave huge tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country that added to the debt;

The deficit now--what is it, one-third of what it was when President Bush left office?

We must restore faith with the American people and their Government. Sadly, this budget does exactly the opposite.