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.
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.
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.
the deficit now--what is it, one-third of what it was when President Bush left office?
we do not want to see Government wasting money. We want programs run efficiently.
I think that the Koch brothers get about a $30 billion--their family will get a $30 billion tax break.
President Trump campaigned on the fact that he was going to take on Wall Street.
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.
the so-called Republican health care plan that the House recently passed really in all honesty is not a health care bill at all.
In other words, the campaign, the Trump campaign, campaigned on reinstating Glass-Steagall.
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.
your budget thinks that it is good public policy to provide $52 billion in tax breaks for the wealthiest family in this country.
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 not a budget that takes on the political establishment. This is a budget of the political establishment.
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.
The reality is that the budget that President Trump has proposed would break virtually every promise he made to working people of this country.
Isn't that a little bit of a problem when you are dealing with a $600 billion-plus agency?
Why does a billionaire family get a $52 billion tax break? Please tell the American people.
That is really not true. I mean, we do not know when people are going to be dying, that is for sure.





