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Edward Markey: “They gutted the Department of Education in terms of all the…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Introducing the Equal Tax Act with Rep. Ramirez. We need to stop putting wealth over work.

Published | Video Starts at 19:46

So in that big ugly bill that had huge tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, they cut Medicaid by $1 trillion. They cut Medicare by a half a trillion dollars. They cut the Affordable care Act by $300 billion. They gutted the Department of Education in terms of all the funding that teachers need. in order to make sure those kids with disabilities, those kids that need just a little extra help, get the funding which they need. (19:46–19:51)

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Asserts that the Department of Education funding was significantly reduced in the same bill.

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