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Mark Pocan: “The Joint Committee on Taxation said [the tax cut extension]…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:07

All of that is to pay off this tax cut that originally was estimated at $4.5 trillion. To extend it now, The Joint Committee on Taxation said [the tax cut extension] is five and a half trillion dollars. And that's all money literally stolen from working class people to go to Elon Musk and Donald Trump and people who can afford to go to Mar a Lago. (06:07–06:12)

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Asserts that the tax cut extension is estimated to cost $5.5 trillion.

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