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Mark Pocan: “It's stealing money from the middle class and those aspiring…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 17:10

… like at our town hall, was that through this reconciliation process that we're going to talk about more in depth at a future program. But it's the ultimate grift, right? It's stealing money from the middle class and those aspiring to be in the middle class and having it available to do his tax cut for Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. So can you talk about that issue a little bit so people can really understand what we're facing? Well, I felt like, as you've always said, Mark, this has been a grift from the very beginning. (17:10–17:22)

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Asserts that the reconciliation process is taking money from the middle class for tax cuts for wealthy individuals.

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