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Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

But just put it into the Republican platform. I stand corrected.

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Jan 31, 2017

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.

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Jan 31, 2017

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.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

President Trump campaigned on the fact that he was going to take on Wall Street.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

In other words, the campaign, the Trump campaign, campaigned on reinstating Glass-Steagall.

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Jan 31, 2017

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.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

I think those are immoral decisions.

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Jan 31, 2017

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…

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Jan 31, 2017

I would hope that we could work together on that issue.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

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.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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Jan 31, 2017

Why does a billionaire family get a $52 billion tax break? Please tell the American people.

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Jan 31, 2017

That is really not true. I mean, we do not know when people are going to be dying, that is for sure.

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Jan 31, 2017

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

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