made them all, quote, a lot richer. he was open about it. the bill that the majority of americans does not support costs $1.5 trillion. according to a new study by democrats, an estimated $2 trillion cost of republicans overall tax cuts and nearly dollar for dollar. the same that they ll cut from medicare, medicaid and social security. mitch mcconnell blamed safety nets with exploding the deficit, that they re responsible. it s very disturbing and it s driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, medicare, social security and medicaid. while campaigning for bill nelson, joe biden seized on the news to motivate voters. let s watch joe biden. now mcconnell, senator from kentucky turns around and says,
for community based hospitals, and then let them cut a dime from social security and medica medicare. how did that happen? the caucus was unified under her leadership. real quick. you were there. i saw you there. across the room. saturday night, the correspondents dinner. there has been a lot of reaction, of course, including from the president, he called it big boy bust and the dinner is dead and called the comedian filthy. where do you land on this? well, you know, i think, one, you know, the comedian was very funny and brilliant at times and rough at times. but for this president or for his allies to lecture us about decency is just the height of hypocrisy. it is so outrageous. this is the president who went after, for instance, african nations and called them s-hole countries, he called black athletes sobs, he made fun of disabled reporters. you have some nerve.
you understand compromiser is not a compliment now. compromiser means gutless and possibly immoral? at what point did you know this? almost immediately. i came in with a democratic wave of 2006. that wave was driven by independent voters. an 18-point swing in independents. centrist candidates being elected to office. the first thing we encountered in washington was people in the far left democratic side saying put the idea of bipartisanship to the side. what you find in that atmosphere is if you re tagged as somebody who is bipartisan and likes to compromise and work with the other side, they ll use it against you as i found in a later primary. and it s only gotten worse? yes. a little more than 50 years ago we had life altering culture changing legislation. medica medicare, medicaid, voting rights, civil rights. we all realize in reality none
trump was kicconsistent. i won t cut these things. and his advisors making the distinction, he won t cut. actually his budget cut for the disability and you have to wonder even in the negotiation with republicans, even if he can get them to pioint they have support, his own budget, slowing the growth raid of medicaid. clearly something he wants to accomplish, even though he campaigned on the opposite. something he has to live with and members of congress who support the bill have to live with that as well. that s one broken promise. this health care bill, health and senate, break three major promises of president obama when a candidate. one, the idea he would have tax cuts only for the middle class as his treasury secretary continues to say, this is a tax cut solely for the richest 1% of the country. the fact that medicaid would be
a lot of people ob capitol hin saying the president didn t mean it. and president obama criticized the senate bill and the president confirming he called the house bill mean. he actually used my term, mean. that was my term, because i want to see i want to see and i speak from the heart. that s what i want to see. i want to see a bill with heart. that s what he says now. but he celebrated the house bill in the rose garden with a huge ceremony as if it was the greatest thick since sliced bread. if you are a republican senator, part, not all, worried about medica medicare, premium medicaid, worried about premiums and the substance of the bill. if it s 50/50, aren t you worried a month from now, polling bad s the president of the united states will criticize the very bill he just asked you to vote for? absolutely. you want political cover from your president. in 2009, democrats taking a difficult vote from obamacare,