Next, house and Senate Democrats respond to the president s Budget Proposal at a press conference on capitol hill yesterday. Okay. Thank you all very much for being here to discuss an issue of enormous consequence for the American People. The trump budget introduced today constitutes a massive transfer of wealth from working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor to the top 1 . It follows in the footsteps of the Trump Ryan Health care bill which gives huge tax breaks to the healthiest few while throwing 24 million americans off of their Health Insurance and dramatically raising premiums for older workers. This is a budget which says that if you are the richest family in america, the walton family, you can get up to a 53 billion tax break through the repeal of the estate tax. 53 billion tax break. But at the same time, it says that if you are a lower income senior citizen, you will not be able to get the one nutritious meal a day you now receive through the meals on
Mr. Sanders thank you for being here to discuss. The trump budget introduced today constitutes a massive from workingealth families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor to the top 1 . It follows in the footsteps of the trumpryan healthcare bill, which gives huge tax breaks to the wealthiest few while throwing 24 million americans off of their Health Insurance and dramatically raising premiums for older workers. This is a budget that says if you are the richest family in america, the walton family, you billion taxo a 53 break through the repeal of the estate tax. 53 billion tax break. But at the same time, it says if you are a lower income senior citizen, he will not be able to get the one nutritious meal and a you now receive through the meals on Wheels Program or the help you desperately need if you are disabled. This is a budget that says if you are the second wealthiest family in america, the Koch Brothers family, a family that has contributed many of hundreds of millio
Children, the sick and the poor to the top 1 . It follows in the footsteps of the trump Orion Health Care bill which gives huge tax breaks to the wealthiest few while 24 million americans off of their Health Insurance and dramatically raise premiums. This is a budget that says if you are the richest family in america, the Walton Family you , can get up to a 53 billion tax break for the repeal. Break. Lion tax at the same time it says if you are a lower income senior citizen, you will not be able to get one nutritious meal a day. You now receive it through the meals on Wheels Program or the help you just really need if you are disabled. This is a budget that says if you are the second wealthiest family in america, the Koch Brothers family, a family that is introverted hundreds that contributed many hundreds of millions of dollars into the Republican Party you may get up to a 34 billion tax break but at the same time if you are workingclass student trying to figure out how you could poss
American politics today. Those are the things that make candidates win or lose, along with their personality and all these other factors. I think party labors party labels are kind of an afterthought. Whos also Steve Schmidt served as a senior strategist for george w. Bush and john aint. The discussion and john mccain. The discussion was on Donald Trumps First One Hundred days, hosted by the university of toledo fire. See the disc university of southern california. See tonight here on cspan. On sunday, matt havey will be our guest on indepth. That instant when you fall in love, for me, trump was like that, except it was the opposite. On thefirst saw him campaign trail, i thought this is a person who is unique, horrible, terrible characteristics were put on earth specifically for me to appreciate or unappreciated or whatever the verb is. Because i had really been spending a lot of the last 10 to , without knowing it, preparing for donald trump to happen. He is a contributor to Rolling S
Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Im the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. The Heritage Foundation. I would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they wont interrupt proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a Government Policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. The United States is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. We have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. That can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies. Those that are put in place offense fo