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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders: Cuts Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid will follow the Republican tax bill
Published on Nov 30, 2017
Tonight I asked my Republican colleague Sen. Toomey to guarantee to the American people there would not be cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid after this tax bill. He couldn't do that.
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Bernie Sanders: Cuts Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid will follow the Republican tax bill (Original Post)
Donkees
Dec 2017
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spedtr90
(719 posts)1. That amendment
Guessing it didn't pass, if it even got a vote. If there was a vote, hope it was with a roll call.
Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)2. Those cuts are the intended result ...
... of the huge budget deficits.
The funds from the hard earned benefits we've already paid for are being transferred to wealthy campaign contributors.
mtngirl47
(991 posts)3. That is what the Republican intention was all along. n/t
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)4. And he got Tomy and Rubio to admitt it.