Bernie Sanders claims White House budget would kill thousands, but Mulvaney says thats not true
February 13 at 2:21 PM
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) berated White House budget director Mick Mulvaney over President Trump’s budget proposal Tuesday, contending that thousands of people would die and others would freeze because of the administration’s proposed cuts.
Sanders was referring specifically to the budget proposal’s repeal of the Affordable Care Act and cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
But, “the good news is this budget is going nowhere,” Sanders said, accurately describing the fate of virtually all presidential budgets, this year’s in particular since it comes on the heels of a massive bipartisan deal setting spending levels for the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years.
The exchange between Sanders and Mulvaney happened at a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee, where Sanders is top Democrat, a day after the Trump administration released the 2019 budget proposal.
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