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Peter Welch: “The tax cut that the majority is proposing, more than half…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senate Discussion on Medicaid Cuts and Tax Reform with Senators Klobuchar and Warnock

Published | Video Starts at 06:35

Because probably every single one of us on both sides of the aisle would say yes to a tax cut and we'd say yes to Medicaid. But we've got to be candid with one another and with the American people that The tax cut that the majority is proposing, more than half of it, is going to go to billionaires, multimillionaires and to very, very profitable multinational corporations. And in the design of the quote, pay for $800 billion is going to be taken away from the health care that provides essential health care to kids and to seniors and to disabled people. (06:35–06:52)

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Asserts that over half of the proposed tax cut benefits billionaires and profitable corporations.

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