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Bernie Sanders: “It's a 3.4% increase, not a 40% increase.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published | Video Starts at 24:31

And he said, you gotta defeat that bill because it's giving a 40% wage increase, salary increase to members of Congress. A total absolute lie. It's a 3.4% increase, not a 40% increase. And this week, in his speech to Congress, Trump once again repeated the claim that Musk started. That zillions and zillions of dead people between the ages of 100 and 300 are receiving Social Security checks. (24:31–24:36)

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Asserts that the actual salary increase was 3.4%, not 40%.

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