BERNIE SANDERS WAS QUESTIONING WHITE HOUSE BUDGET
CHIEF NICK MULVANEY IN REGARD TO DONALD TRUMP'S BUDGET PROPOSAL.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN PAYING ATTENTION, YOU KNOW THAT THE
BUDGET PROPOSAL WOULD CUT FUNDING FOR A LOT OF PROGRAMS
THAT UNDERPRIVILEGED AMERICANS RELY ON WHILE GIVING THE
WEALTHIEST AMERICANS MORE TAX CUTS.
OF COURSE, THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT BERNIE SANDERS IS NOT TOO PLEASED ABOUT WHICH IS
WHY HE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK BUDGET CHIEF NICK MULVANEY
SOME PRETTY DIFFICULT QUESTIONS THAT MULVANEY KIND OF
STUMBLED WITH SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRST VIDEO WHERE
SANDERS SPECIFICALLY TALKS ABOUT THESE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY.
MISTER MULVANEY, AS YOU KNOW THE UNITED STATES TODAY HAS MORE
INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY THAN ANY MAJOR COUNTRY OWNER.
THE TOP ONE 10TH OF 1% OWNS ALMOST AS MUCH WEALTH AS
THE BOTTOM 90%.
52% OF ALL NEW INCOME TODAY IS GOING TO THE TOP
1%.
BUT YOUR BUDGET THINKS THAT IT IS GOOD PUBLIC POLICY TO
PROVIDE 52 BILLION.
AND TAX BREAKS TO THE WEALTHIEST FAMILY
IN THIS COUNTRY, FAMILY ALREADY WORKED HUNDRED AND $28 MILLION
SO MY QUESTION IS PRETTY SIMPLE: I WANT YOU TO TELL THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE WHAT YOU THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE $3 TRILLION IN
TAX BREAKS TO THE TOP 1% AT A TIME WHEN THE RICH ARE BECOMING
MUCH RICHER WHILE THE SAME TIME YOU ARE GOING TO THROW 17
MILLION CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY OFF OF HEALTH INSURANCE BECAUSE
OF THE UNCONSCIONABLE CUTS THAT YOU ARE MAKING TO MEDICAID,
WHERE YOU CAN THROW SEAMSTRESS IN THE STATE OF WYOMING THE
STATE OF VERMONT OFF THE MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM, MAYBE THE ONE
NUTRITIOUS PROGRAM THAT THEY GET A DAY, WHY YOU'RE GOING TO THROW
WOMEN AND LOW INCOME BABIES OFF OF THE WIC PROGRAM AT A TIME
WHEN INFANT MORTALITY RATES IN THIS COUNTRY IS ALREADY HIGH.
DO YOU REALLY THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO TELL LOW INCOME PREGNANT
WOMAN THAT YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE AWAY THE WIC PROGRAM, TAKE AWAY
NUTRITION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN IN ORDER TO GIVE A MASSIVE TAX
BREAK OF $52 BILLION TO THE WALTON FAMILY.
PLEASE EXPLAIN
YOUR LOGIC TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
DAM.
JUST SO FIERY.
IS SO GOOD THAT I WANTED TO LET MULVANEY WAS WRITING.
XML.
PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE.
I'M EXTREMELY COMFORTABLE WITH
THIS MAN YELLING AT ME RIGHT NOW THAT I NOTE THAT PRETEND YOU'RE
WRITING NOTES AND BY THE WAY AM BEING A LITTLE UNFAIR BECAUSE
MAYBE HIS WRITING NOTES.
CAN DO THE FACT THAT THIS WOULD GET 52
BILLION IN TAX BREAKS TO THE WALTON FAMILY.
IS THAT REALLY TRUE THAT.
HE'S AWARE THAT THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE LINE OF QUESTIONING
FROM BERNIE SANDERS.
THAT IS THE TYPE OF HAD ONE IS A
PERFORMANCE BUT THE TYPE OF BEHAVIOR FROM BERNIE SANDERS
THAT I THINK MADE A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT HIM TO BE THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, WHY SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WANTED TO SUPPORT
HIM AND SEE HIM WHEN THE ELECTION AND HE IS A FIGHTER AND
IT IS AMAZING.
LOOK, THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING OF IT.
OBVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE YOU GUYS A CHIT CHANCE TO CHECK
HOW MULVANEY RESPONDED SO LET'S GO TO THE NEXT VIDEO WHERE YOU
WILL SEE HOW HE RESPONDS AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHETHER
OR NOT YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING HE SAYS.
WIC SERVES IS NOT REDUCED, AND OTHERS MEALS ON WHEELS THAT
THE CHANGE WE MADE.
YOU ELIMINATE THE BLOCK RANK, YOU TELL ME THAT RUNS THE
PROGRAM, YOU TELL ME DOESN'T HAVE AN IMPACT ON.
THE PROGRAM IS FUNDED THROUGH THE OLD AGE OR SENIOR
NUTRITION PROGRAM THROUGH HHS WHICH WE DON'T CHANGE THE.
THAT IS NOT TRUE.
IT IS.
THE PROGRAM IS A BLOCK GRANT TO THE STATES AND
SOME STATES DO CHOOSE TO USE SOME OF THAT MONEY.
YOU ELIMINATE THAT PROGRAM.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS DUCK LIKE SENATOR,
ANSWER THE QUESTION.
THE TOTAL MONEY FOR MEALS ON WHEELS THAT COMES FROM CD BD IS
3%.
BUT IS IT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN POSSIBLY CONTEND.
YOU ARE ELIMINATING THE PROGRAM THAT FUNDS NOT ONLY
MEALS ON WHEELS BUT MANY OTHER PROGRAMS AT THE DISCRETION OF
GOVERNORS.
I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HAVE A LONG SESSION ABOUT THIS.
US FROM MEDICAID AS WELL.
THE SLASHING OF MEDICAID, THE
DRAMATIC CUTS TO MEDICAID IS A SLOWER GROWTH RATE OF MEDICAID.
MEDICAID SPENDING GOES UP EVERY YEAR.
SODAS HEALTHCARE INFLATION.
WE GO THROUGH THIS GAMES EVERY YEAR.
INFLATION IS GOING UP A LOT FASTER THAN THE MONEY YOU
ARE PUTTING IN.
WHAT I LOVE IS HOW PREPARED HE IS TO RESPOND TO THE GAMES
THAT POLITICIANS PLAY IN GENERAL.
BECAUSE YOU CAN SKEW
THE ARGUMENT AND KIND OF TWISTY ARGUMENT IN A WAY THAT MAKES IT
SEEM LIKE NO, IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
WE'RE NOT REALLY CUTTING THAT
MUCH FROM THESE PROGRAMS THAT HELP THE POOR, BUT BURNING CAME
IN PREPARED, KNOWING WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT AND THAT IS
IMPORTANT.
I'M GOING TO DISAGREE A LITTLE BIT.
OBVIOUSLY, I LOVE
THE PASSION FROM BERNIE AND I LOVE THE INTENSE.
I THINK THE
POLITICALLY, HE GAVE MULVANEY WHO IS A LOATHSOME REPULSIVE
LIAR, I DON'T WANT TO BE TOO STRONG, BUT HE IS A HORRIBLE
GUY.
POLITICALLY, HE MAY WELL OF US CHILDREN, BUT BY BEING
SPECIFIC ON THINGS LIKE MEALS ON WHEELS, HE ALLOWS MULVANEY TO
GET INTO THEM A NEW SHARE OF MEALS ON WHEELS AND GIVES HIM
ARGUABLY A RHETORICAL WIN ON HEY, WE'RE CUTTING 3% FOR MEALS
ON WHEELS.
HOW CAN YOU ARGUE, AND ON THE MEDICAID THING WHERE
HE'S LIKE IT'S INCREASING AT A SLOWER RATE.
BURNING SIMIANS OF
BEING DEFENSIVE AS OPPOSED TO AGAIN AND OVERALL NO SHIFT IN
TONE NO SHIFT IN ANGER WHEN INCOME INEQUALITY IS GETTING
WORSE AND WORSE WHEN ONE 10TH OF 1% OWN AS MUCH AS 90% OF
EVERYONE ELSE, WHAT KIND OF MONSTERS END UP GIVING $52
BILLION TO THE WALTON FAMILY AND $3 TRILLION TO THE RICHEST
AMERICANS IN THE COUNTRY.
WHO OBVIOUSLY, WISE AND THAT MONEY
BEING DIRECTED TO THE POOREST AMERICANS, THE MIDDLE-CLASS
AMERICANS TO PROGRAMS THAT WORK RATHER THAN ALLOWING HIM TO
SPECIFICALLY RETORT CERTAIN POINTS WHICH AGAIN, MULVANEY IS
THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET.
HE IS
GOING TO HAVE, HE IS NOT GOING TO BE UNPREPARED COMPLETELY
TO DEFEND HIS POINTS.
IS NOT UNPREPARED BECAUSE HE HAS US TALKING POINTS REPAIRED
AND HE TRIED TO UTILIZE THEM IN THAT ARGUMENT BELOW, RIGHT NOW
WHAT WE'RE DOING IS A PLAY-BY-PLAY AND I THINK IF YOU
DO A PLAY-BY-PLAY, THEIR MOMENTS WERE BERNIE COMES OFF A STRONGER
AND THEIR MOMENTS WHEN MULVANEY COMES OUT A LITTLE STRONGER BUT
IN MY OPINION, NOT REALLY.
I THINK THE SADDEST PART ABOUT ALL
OF THIS IS THE BEST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE NEVER EVEN GOING
TO THIS EXCHANGE.
THEY'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO BE AWARE OF
MULVANEY'S ARGUMENTS AND HIS PERSISTENT LIES ON THESE
ISSUES WHICH IS THE WORST PART ABOUT ALL OF THIS BUT I
WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO JUMP IN.
I THINK SEE HER POINT, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT INEQUALITY, TO
BERNIE'S CREDIT, YOU HAVE TO PUT A FACE ON WHAT INEQUALITY LOOKS
LIKE THAT WHEN YOU MENTIONED WAKE AND MEALS ON WHEELS,
GRANTED, IF VOTERS EVER SEE THIS, IT LETS THEM KNOW HOW THEY
WERE PERSONALLY BE IMPACTED BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN YOU SPEAK
TO GENERALLY PEOPLE TEND TO CONFLATE OTHER FOLKS WITH
INEQUALITY AS OPPOSED TO THEMSELVES.
YOU GET MEALS ON WHEELS, YOU ARE AFFECTED BY MEDICAID AND
MEDICARE AND IT IS NOT JUST THOSE OTHER PEOPLE SO I
THINK IT IS A DELICATE DANCING YOU HAVE TO DO WHEN YOU
TALK ABOUT INEQUALITY.
IS ALSO PERSONALIZING FOR FOLKS WHO THINKS THAT IS THEM.
THAT'S A GOOD POINT BECAUSE JUST TODAY, CNN RAN A
FASCINATING STORY ON AN ELDERLY WOMAN WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP AND
BASED ON HIS BUDGET PROPOSAL, IF IT GOES THROUGH, HER SSI
BENEFITS WOULD BE GONE AND THAT IS WHAT SHE RELIES ON TO LIVE.
SHE WAS INTERVIEWED BY CNN AND SHE WAS LIKE I DIDN'T EXPECT
THEM TO GO AFTER MY SAFETY NET.
I DIDN'T EXPECT HIM TO GO AFTER
A PROGRAM THAT HELPS ME AND SO, I KNOW, IT IS FRUSTRATING
BECAUSE THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF WORKING IN THE NEW SIDE OF
THINGS, THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF THAT WE HAVE BEEN
REPORTING ON OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND TRYING TO GET THROUGH
EVERYONE'S HEADS THAT THESE PEOPLE KNOW LOOKING OUT FOR YOU
BUT REGARDLESS I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION THE
SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THAT ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE CUTS.
I THINK
IT'S IMPORTANT TO PERSONALIZE IT BECAUSE WE'RE LIVING IN THIS
WEIRD SOCIETY WHERE IT IS US VERSUS THEM IN EVERYTHING AND IT
CAN'T BE THAT WAY.
ALL OF US ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED IN SOME
NEGATIVE FASHION IF WE ALLOW THIS KIND OF BUDGET PROPOSAL TO
GO THROUGH.
THERE IS ONE LESS VIDEO THAT I WANT TO TOSS 2.
THIS IS WHERE SANDERS IS DEMANDING MULVANEY ANSWER
TO WHY THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY GET A TAX BREAK
WHEREAS THE POOREST PEOPLE WILL BE HURT THE MOST.
BOTTOM LINE IS TELL ME, LIMITS OF ONE QUESTION THAT WHAT YOU
THINK THE WALTON FAMILY NEEDS A $52 MILLION TAX REQUEST OR.
MY GUESS IS YOU ARE BASING THAT ASSERTION ON THE ONLY TEXT
EACH OTHER WE HAVE IN THE BUDGET.
EVERYONE HAVE A TALK ABOUT WHY WE ARE REPEALING THAT, I
WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO THAT ARE.
GOOD TELL ME.
ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE PAYING MORE.
NO ORDINARY PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A WEALTH OF HUNDRED $20 BILLION.
THAT IS AN ORDINARY PERSON.
AVERAGE INCREASE.
YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION.
ANSWER THE QUESTION.
THE WEALTHIEST FAMILY IN AMERICA GETS A $52
BILLION TAX BREAK AS A RESULT OF THE REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX.
TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHY YOU THINK THAT IS GOOD WHEN YOU
CUT MEDICAID AND YOU CUT PROGRAMS FOR KIDS?
WE DON'T GET MEDICAID.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REPEALING OBAMA
CARE.
23 MILLION PEOPLE OUT OF HEALTH INSURANCE, THAT IS RIGHT?
THAT'S A CBO NUMBER THAT I THINK COULD BE WRONG.
I DIDN'T AGREE TO THAT ALL THE.
WE REPEAL OBAMA CARE.
WHAT IS A BILLIONAIRE FAMILY GET A $52
BILLION TAX REQUEST OF PLEASE TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO.
BECAUSE WE THINK IT'S WRONG THAT ORDINARY FOLKS LOSE
COVERAGE AND WANT TO GET.
ORDINARY PEOPLE.
IS THE WALTON FAMILY AND ORDINARY FAMILY QUESTO.
KNOW THEIR EXTERNAL BUT ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE LOSING
COVERAGE THERE UNDER OBAMA CARE.
I ASKED YOU WHY THE WEALTHIEST FAMILY IN
AMERICA IS GETTING A TAX BREAK THE.
AND ANSWERING BECAUSE WE REPEAL OBAMA CARE.
KNOW YOU IN THE ESTATE TAX WHICH APPEALS TO THE TOP 2%.
SENATOR, I'M SORRY, THE ASSUMPTION WAS WE WERE LOOKING
AT THE TAX REDUCTIONS THAT ARE CONTAINED IN OBAMA CARE.
KNOW, THAT IS NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX WHAT YOU
JUST MENTIONED ARE.
THE BUDGET ASSUMES A DEFICIT NEUTRAL TAX PLAN BECAUSE WHEN WE
WROTE THE BUDGET, WE DO NOT HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH SPECIFICS TO
ASSUME WHAT YOU ARE ASSUMING WHICH IS THE SPECIFIC REDUCTION.
YES, THE PROPOSALS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE PUBLISHED THEIR FOUR
WEEKS AGO, THE PRINCIPLES THAT WE SET FORTH DOES NOT DOES
INCLUDE A REDUCTION OF OF THE ESTATE TAX.
REPEAL THE ESTATE TAX.
YOU ACTUALLY WRITE UP BUT IT'S MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE
TO TAKE THOSE GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND ASSUME A DIRECT IMPACT ON A
PARTICULAR FAMILY.
NOBODY CAN DO IT.
I'VE SEEN ESTIMATES FROM
GROUPS THAT SAY -
THAT IS NOT TRUE.
IT'S REALLY NOT TRUE.
THAT ONE I WILL GIVE TO BERNIE.
BUT AGAIN, THAT WAS
SPECIFIC.
THERE WERE FEWER WAYS, THE OTHER TIME HE WAS GIVEN TOO
MANY
OUTS, BUT I DON'T WANT TO SEEM NITPICKY, BUT THAT'S AN ISSUE
THAT I THINK BERNIE HAS.
YOU FIRED ENOUGH THINGS THEN YOU
JUST RESPOND TO ONE.
THERE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ESTATE
TAX.
I SAID IT 12 TIMES.
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IS WHAT
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND OF COURSE, AS WE KNOW, THERE IS NO
ARGUMENT FOR THE ESTATE TAX THAT AFFECTS REGULAR AMERICANS
BECAUSE EVEN NOW, AND WHAT DEMOCRATS WOULD ULTIMATELY AGREE
TO ARE EXEMPTIONS THAT I THINK NOW ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF,
I
DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME BUT IT IS LIKE $3 MILLION PER PERSON
OR SIX SO UNLESS YOU'RE TAX-FREE THROUGH FIVE OR $6 MILLION OF
THE ESTATE, SO FAMILY FARMS, THAT MAKES THEM EXEMPT.
YOU
HAVE TO HAVE, BEFORE YOU GET AN OUNCE OF ESTATE TAX YOU HAVE TO
BE INHERITING MORE THAN $7 MILLION.
WE ARE NOT, IN SOME
CASES IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE LOWER, BUT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS COME TO YOUR TAX-FREE IF YOUR PARENTS DIE, IF THEIR
HOUSE IS WORTH $726,000, YOU ARE NOT TAXED ON IT.
EXACTLY.
I LOVE THAT EXCHANGE.
I LOVE HOW STRONG
BERNIE IS AND THAT HE CONTINUES TO FIGHT EVEN THOUGH HE IS NOT
CAMPAIGNING FOR ANYTHING RIGHT NOW.
THAT IS WHAT WE NEED.
POLITICIANS ARE ACTUALLY LOOKING OUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE POWERLESS
AND DON'T HAVE ANYONE VOICING THEIR CONCERNS.