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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The tax scam bill... was 2 trillion of that.”

Featuring: Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic | U.S. Senate Rhode Island

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Published | Video Starts at 00:58

The tax scam bill, as we refer to it on our side, that the Republicans put through for their rich friends in The tax scam bill... was 2 trillion of that. And that had to come through this committee to get to reconciliation, to be able to push those rich people's tax cuts on a party line basis. (00:58–01:11)

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Asserts that the tax bill passed during the Trump administration added $2 trillion to the national debt.

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