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Chuck Schumer: “They want to make these cuts so they can cut taxes on the…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Chuck Shumer Addresses Trump's blocked federal funding pause

Published | Video Starts at 19:19

Donald Trump, with his cruel policy has aroused the American people and begun to show them how this administration is not for working families, but for the billionaires because They want to make these cuts so they can cut taxes on the wealthiest of Americans and the biggest corporations. My office was smothered by an avalanche of calls from New Yorkers, local leaders in every part of my state, furious that the administration would do this with no notice, with no understanding. (19:19–19:28)

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Asserts that the cuts are intended to facilitate tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

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