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Jim McGovern: “When you wanted tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires…”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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Jim McGovern Destroys Republicans Over Trump's Debt Explosion In A Fiery Speech | US Senate

Published | Video Starts at 04:34

And nothing is your responsibility. Boy, it must be nice to live that way. And I'll just say one thing. When you guys want to get things done, I mean, you do. When you wanted tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, I mean, you shoved that through. Added $4.7 trillion to the debt. you get that through. I wish we could have stopped it. But you got it through. When you wanted to cut Medicaid by a trillion dollars, you did it in a nanosecond snap by $200 billion. (04:34–04:41)

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Asserts that tax cuts for the wealthy added $4.7 trillion to the debt.

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