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

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.

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?

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

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.

I think this is a nomination of significant consequence.

Do you think it is more important to tell billionaires like President Trump... that maybe they should start paying their fair share of taxes before we cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid?

Will you tell the President of the United States, 'Mr. President, keep your word, be honest with the American people, do not cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid'?

I happen to believe that Social Security is one of the most significant and important and positive programs that the United States Government has.

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But that has shrunk--the middle-class wealth has shrunk.

I would hope that members on both sides would be able to make brief statements given the importance of this nomination.

When you talk to the President about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, do you tell the President that it is more important that he keep faith with democracy?

When we talk about the budget, we have multi-billionaires like Donald Trump who proudly tell the American people he has not paid a nickel in Federal taxes.

Given that massive, grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, and having people like President Trump not paying a nickel in Federal taxes, and then having people wanting to cut programs for the elderly or the sick and the poor…

You disagree with him, and that is certainly your right. You believe we should raise the retirement age.

There is a lot of disgust with politics in America today.

Do you believe then that the President will keep his word and not cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid?

What I saw on Sunday were millions of people saying that we do not want more tax breaks for billionaires.

Medicare, by and large, is an enormously successful health care program; and, in fact, the majority of the American people would like to see Medicare expanded to all Americans.

Why would you deny them that choice?

Medicaid right now is saving the lives of millions of people.

Mr. Trump right now owns factories in countries like Bangladesh, Mexico, China and Turkey where he's paying workers abroad very low wages.

I think there's very little doubt that Russia hacked into our election and that they were supportive of Mr. Trump.

I think that the inaugural speech was certainly not what most Americans wanted to hear. I think what most Americans wanted to hear that President Trump should understand that he's the president for all of our people and not just those who…