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Chris Van Hollen: “They extended the tax cuts for the richest Americans.”

Featuring: Chris Van Hollen, Democratic | U.S. Senate Maryland

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So when they passed what they called the big beautiful bill, which was beautiful, if you're a billionaire, it really stunk if you were anybody else. They cut Medicaid. You know what else they did? They extended the tax cuts for the richest Americans. They let them go on forever. You know, the tax cut that they let lapse, the one that helps working families afford health care, that's the one that they let lapse while they made permanent, the one for billionaires. (14:35–14:41)

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Asserts that tax cuts for the richest Americans were extended.

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