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Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, presented a gigantic Trump tweet today on the Senate floor to demand that Trump stand by his campaign promises and veto any bills that come across his desk that cut Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security.
Bernie Just Printed a Gigantic Trump Tweet and Brought It to the Senate Floor
The tweet dates from May of 2015 and proclaimed, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”
Bernie said that if Trump plans to cut Medicare or Medicaid that he should just admit now that he was lying.
“Millions of people voted for him on the belief that he would keep his word,” Sanders said on the Senate floor, referring to Trump’s promises during the election campaign.
“If he was sincere, then I would hope that tomorrow or maybe today he could send out a tweet and tell his Republican colleagues to stop wasting their time and all of our time. And for Mr. Trump to tell the American people that he will veto any proposal that cuts Medicare, that cuts Medicaid or that cuts Social Security.”
The Senate voted on a budget resolution that will initiate the process to gut the Affordable Care Act.
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Chuck Schumer ✔ @SenSchumer
The GOP's first move this Congress will be a full-scale assault on the three pillars of our health care system: Medicare, Medicaid & the ACA
10:20 AM - 4 Jan 2017
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As Bernie pointed out during today’s Senate session, the Republicans have had 8 years to come up with an alternative plan but have failed to do so and now they are attempting to throw 30 million people off of health care with no plan to provide health care to those people.
TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS: BERNIE SANDERS
THEY HAVE HAD EIGHT YEARS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW TO COME UP WITH A NEW PLAN. THEY HAVE NO IDEAS. THEIR THEME IS TO REPEAL AND THEN DELAY, OR SOMEDAY THEY'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH A NEW PLAN. YOU DON'T DESTROY A HOUSE WITHOUT HAVING ANOTHER HOUSE IN WHICH PEOPLE TO LIVE. YOU DON'T THROW 30 MILLION PEOPLE OFF OF HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HAVING A PLAN TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO THOSE PEOPLE.
SHOCK OF ALL SHOCKS, OUR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES WANT TO GIVE MASSIVE TAX BREAKS TO THE TOP 2%. NOW, AT A TIME WHEN THE TOP .1% OWNS ALMOST AS MUCH WEALTH AS THE BOTTOM 90%, WHEN THE TOP 1% IS EARNING -- EARNING 52% OF ALL NEW INCOME, YOU GO OUT AND YOU ASK YOUR CONSTITUENTS WHETHER WE SHOULD GIVE HUGE TAX BREAKS TO THE TOP 2%, AND THEY DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS A GOOD IDEA..."
Bernie Just Printed a Gigantic Trump Tweet and Brought It to the Senate Floor
The tweet dates from May of 2015 and proclaimed, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”
Bernie said that if Trump plans to cut Medicare or Medicaid that he should just admit now that he was lying.
“Millions of people voted for him on the belief that he would keep his word,” Sanders said on the Senate floor, referring to Trump’s promises during the election campaign.
“If he was sincere, then I would hope that tomorrow or maybe today he could send out a tweet and tell his Republican colleagues to stop wasting their time and all of our time. And for Mr. Trump to tell the American people that he will veto any proposal that cuts Medicare, that cuts Medicaid or that cuts Social Security.”
The Senate voted on a budget resolution that will initiate the process to gut the Affordable Care Act.
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Chuck Schumer ✔ @SenSchumer
The GOP's first move this Congress will be a full-scale assault on the three pillars of our health care system: Medicare, Medicaid & the ACA
10:20 AM - 4 Jan 2017
2,181 2,181 Retweets 2,115 2,115 likes
.
As Bernie pointed out during today’s Senate session, the Republicans have had 8 years to come up with an alternative plan but have failed to do so and now they are attempting to throw 30 million people off of health care with no plan to provide health care to those people.
TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS: BERNIE SANDERS
THEY HAVE HAD EIGHT YEARS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW TO COME UP WITH A NEW PLAN. THEY HAVE NO IDEAS. THEIR THEME IS TO REPEAL AND THEN DELAY, OR SOMEDAY THEY'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH A NEW PLAN. YOU DON'T DESTROY A HOUSE WITHOUT HAVING ANOTHER HOUSE IN WHICH PEOPLE TO LIVE. YOU DON'T THROW 30 MILLION PEOPLE OFF OF HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HAVING A PLAN TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO THOSE PEOPLE.
SHOCK OF ALL SHOCKS, OUR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES WANT TO GIVE MASSIVE TAX BREAKS TO THE TOP 2%. NOW, AT A TIME WHEN THE TOP .1% OWNS ALMOST AS MUCH WEALTH AS THE BOTTOM 90%, WHEN THE TOP 1% IS EARNING -- EARNING 52% OF ALL NEW INCOME, YOU GO OUT AND YOU ASK YOUR CONSTITUENTS WHETHER WE SHOULD GIVE HUGE TAX BREAKS TO THE TOP 2%, AND THEY DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS A GOOD IDEA..."