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Chris Murphy: “He is simply operationalizing government to steal from poor…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 27:18

But, yeah, he's giving us an opportunity. Right? He has been exposed as a fake populist. Right. He is simply operationalizing government to steal from poor people, cut their health care, to enrich himself. And so that really commands us to try to figure out why we've lost so many votes amongst poor people in this country, because they're now questioning whether this guy is actually righteous, whether this guy is actually is looking out for them. (27:18–27:26)

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Asserts that [Trump] is using government to exploit poor people and cut their healthcare.

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