Jeff Merkley: “We saw billionaires standing behind the president.”

“No. Did we? We see labor advocates trying to get an honest day's pay for an honest day's work? No. We saw billionaires standing behind the president. And that is the vision that he has been operating on from day one of his administration, is we are going to screw families in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires.” (18:32–18:36)

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