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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement Monday after President Donald Trump released his budget proposal:
"The Trump budget introduced today is morally bankrupt and bad economic policy. During the campaign, Donald Trump promised that the wealthy would not get a tax break and that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would not be cut. But his budget does the exact opposite of what Trump pledged to the American people. Trumps budget pays for his huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations by slashing Medicaid by $1.3 trillion, cutting Medicare by $554 billion and slicing $10 billion from the Social Security Disability Insurance Program. This budget is nothing less than a major transfer of wealth from the middle class and working families to the top 1 percent and large corporations.
"Meanwhile, at a time when the U.S. spends more on defense than the next 12 countries combined, the Trump budget calls for a massive increase in military spending paid for by cutting $57 billion in domestic spending from the bipartisan budget agreement that was signed into law just a few days ago.
"This is a budget for the billionaire class, for Wall Street, for corporate CEOs, for defense contractors and for the wealthiest people in this country. It must be defeated."
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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Orsino
(37,428 posts)Doodley
(9,119 posts)agree with what he says, why cant he use the word poor when talking about the impact of cutting safety-net programs? Are there no poor people in America? Coming from the UK, it seems hard to understand why the moral case cant be made that it is simply wrong to take from the poorest and most vulnrable. He has to talk about the middle class and working families. Okay, even Trumpers would say their dictator is part of a working family. If you are going to be a socialist, be one.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)His budget is par for the course.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)goldenheart
(168 posts)I read about this morning...When are we going to see a turn around? Just bad news happening daily, time for a change! Just joined DU, I've been reading really good information for a few years now...I'm not on any social media, but I read quite a lot different news information, an I just feel like I need to share some information with someone else. Thank You DU for such a good venue for me to finally share my feelings and information with like minded people.
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Republicans keep telling us that less government means more freedom and they are right if we were talking about the rich. Less Healthcare for us, more freedom for them.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Marking to watch the video after dinner.