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Cliff Bentz: “If we added up all the money the rich have from a billion on…”

Featuring: Cliff Bentz, Republican | U.S. House Oregon, 2nd Congressional District

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Published August 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 37:40

I get it. But the point is we're broke now. What are we going to do away with? Yeah, let me address the tax direction. I looked at it. If we added up all the money the rich have from a billion on up, it's $6 trillion. What's our budget for one year in America? $6 trillion. So if we just took all their money, we could pay for one year of our budget. (37:40–37:46)

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Asserts that the total wealth of billionaires in the U.S. is $6 trillion.

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“We had as many as 250,000 people coming across the border a month [last year].”
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“It's anticipated about 5.5 million people came in during the Biden administration.”
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“About 1.5 million people across the United States are on Medicaid that are not legally supposed to be on Medicaid.”
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“It's been fined by the federal government. It was fined $10 million after it lost something like $244 million.”
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“Many of the super rich pay 60% in tax.”
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“Had we not extended the Trump tax cuts from 00:17, we would have lost up to 7 million jobs.”
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“There’s going to be reduced taxes on Social Security, overtime, tips, and interest on a new car built in America.”
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“Continuation of the 20% deduction for adjusted gross income for small businesses.”
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“There is a significant amount of money dedicated to finishing the border wall and doing other things on the border.”
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“The bill will put significant amounts of money into [drone research] space.”
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“The bill imposes upon the Forest Service an obligation to increase harvest by 20% over and above the previous year's harvest.”
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“The local taxes that normally are paid when you take lumber or timber out of the woods or paid to the county will not be paid.”
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“If you're on Medicaid, then you're supposed to make not more than 138% of the federal poverty line limit.”
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“A huge number of Americans support a work requirement. I want to say 72%, but it might be a higher number.”
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“The work requirement is 20 hours a week, 20 hours a week, 80 hours a month.”
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“The law says if you're here illegally, you're not eligible [for certain benefits].”
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“The law says if you're making too much money, you're not eligible [for certain benefits].”
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“We have now said, as most Americans agree, that if you're not working, you're not eligible 20 hours a week [for certain benefits].”
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“Oregon [has people] staying on the [Medicaid] program for dramatically longer than the two years, which is supposed to be the max.”
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“Oregon has done a perfectly horrid job at operating our SNAP program.”
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“Oregon is third worst when it comes to managing the food stamp program.”
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“If you make mistakes in giving out more money than 5%, your error rate is greater than 5%, you may end up paying as much as 20% of the total…”
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“If Oregon gets its error rate down to 5% or less, the federal government still pays all of it.”
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“We increased reference prices for wheat from $5.50 to $6.35 a bushel.”
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“We put in $10 billion in tax cuts for farmers.”
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“I supported the Migrant Modern Immunization act that was brought, I want to say, four and a half years ago.”
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“Oregon has been doing a perfectly horrific job in checking on who's eligible [for Medicaid].”
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“I enjoy a good relationship with the White House, that means that people that are assigned to Oregon come to our office.”
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“The reduction in the provider tax is currently the maximum amount that you can tax your hospitals, the state taxes.”
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“The state taxes the hospital takes the money back to Salem and up to 6% of total gross revenues.”
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“This is a shell game designed to milk the federal government of more money.”
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“In 2020, I think the federal government, somebody woke up to the fact that this shell game was being played and they put a lid on it.”
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“I voted to freeze it, freeze Oregon at 6%.”
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“The Senate said, no, we're going to knock it down from six to three and a half.”
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“I already have a promise from the doctor who's head of CMS that he also will help me work on it.”
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“Public broadcasting would have a lot easier times with getting federal support if it wasn't so biased.”
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“We're going 2 trillion a year in the hole.”
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“What's our budget for one year in America? $6 trillion.”
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“Dennis Richardson was Secretary of State in 2020 and... found like three problems [with vote by mail].”
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“If you're going to move the ball in D.C. you've got to have the Senate and you've got to have the House and you have to have the President.”
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“The example I would use is what happened to solar tax provisions that had been passed earlier, two and a half, three years ago, and then…”
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“A deal was made by the President with Lisa Murkowski to preserve some of those solar projects that are very, very important up and down this…”
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“I do support this bill. And, and that, and that's been the case with my votes.”
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