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Matt Cartwright: “These oil companies and multimillionaires and billionaires…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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Rep. Cartwright's Remarks at FY 2025 Federal Trade Commission Budget Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:08

And it isn't enough that the gas prices are killing people. It isn't enough that the prices of everything continue to stay high. It isn't enough that These oil companies and multimillionaires and billionaires are still enjoying the fruits of the tax cuts they got in 2017. None of that's enough. Now they have to conspire with OPEC and with other oil companies to keep prices high at the pump by limiting production. (03:08–03:19)

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Asserts that oil companies and wealthy individuals benefit from 2017 tax cuts.

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