Adam Schiff: “Republicans are going to take hundreds of billions of…”

“Of course, Republicans voted against that. It was followed by a, I think, a Patty Murray amendment that would try to protect nutrition funding. They're Republicans are going to take hundreds of billions of dollars out of food assistance for poor families to fund a tax cut for super wealthy people. And there have been other amendments, for example, to make sure that we weren't borrowing money from our kids, increasing the national debt to fund this big, ugly bill.” (00:40–00:57)

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