Greg Casar: “Social Security and Medicare are not safe until we step up…”

“That means bigger classroom sizes for our students and our struggling teachers, longer wait times for our veterans seeking health care, all to finance bigger tax cuts for billionaires and multinational corporations. Social Security and Medicare are not safe until we step up and vote to make sure they are safe. And that's why I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so that we can vote for HR178, which would put our money where our mouth is.” (00:49–00:55)

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.