Peter Welch: “Offsets in order to pay for the Trump tax cuts that are…”

“And of course, most spectacularly, what we're seeing is the illegal termination of the USAID program, something the courts have rescinded, but the administration is rushing pell mell. Nevertheless, all of this actually is in service of being able to find Offsets in order to pay for the Trump tax cuts that are heavily weighted to folks who are billionaires like Mr. Musk. and of course to our major US corporations. And you know what? The folks who need a tax cut are the everyday Americans who have been trying to make ends meet and are having real trouble doing that.” (03:52–04:03)

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