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Bernie Sanders: “Trump giving $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1% and…”

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

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Bernie Sanders: Zohran Mamdani's ideas are 'not radical'

Published | Video Starts at 03:12

That is not a radical idea. What is a radical idea, if I may say so, is Trump giving $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1% and throwing 15 million people off the health care they have. That is a radical idea. Thinking that climate change is a hoax is a radical idea. We cannot become accustomed to a nation in which one guy on top, Mr. Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 52% of American society. (03:12–03:21)

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Asserts that Trump provided $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1% and removed 15 million people from their health care.

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