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Security claims, and i won't agree to that. i put forward a proposal that will cut spending by more than $1 trillion, that freezes spending for the next two years, on top of the nearly $3 trillion in deficit reduction i previously proposed through spending cuts and new revenue raises. i propose making the wealthy pay their fair share, which will reduce the deficit but won't cut programs for hard working americans depending on those funds in order to continue big tax returns for the wealthiest americans. america and america's largest corporations. but we can reduce the deficit both in short ter...

But they're passing a tax cut that greatly increases the deficits. now they are saying because the deficits are big we have to cut back on programs for the poor. you're going to give tax cuts to the rich and cut programs to the poor? is that really what the republican party -- >> isn't that supposed to be part of it that it was supposed to reduce? >> it was supposed to be serving the middle class. the middle class, depends on where you define the middle class, but people under $75,000 were seeing taxes go up over time. to pass this tax cut, use that as an excuse. and then go cut programs, the ...

>> thank you, senator. >> senator sanders. >> let's examine what senator cruz really wants to do. he wants to see legislation passed that would give $1.9 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1%, significantly increase the national debt, being passed on to our kids and our grandchildren. and in order to pay for these tax breaks for billionaires, he wants to throw 15 million people off of medicaid, cut medicare by over $450 billion. cut pel grants, cut programs like the women, nfbt and children program designed for low income pregnant women and their little babies. i do not believe that america is ...

Will reduce spending one of the questions we asked can we really continue to ask a coal miner in west virginia or a single mom in detroit to pay for these programs? the answer is no. we can ask them to pay for defense and we will but not for the corporation of public broadcast broadcasting. you describe this as a high powered budget but is it half-hearted? >> i don't think so. i think it's one of the most compassionate things we can do. >> cut programs for the elderly? we are trying to focus on the people who give us the money in the first place. i think it's compassionate to say we are not ...

Ivanka trump your father is the one who killed snuf snuff. moved over to hbo. mick mulvaney meanwhile says look, this is about priorities. can we really afford to do some programs that get a lot of money? here he is yesterday at the white house. >> i think it's probably one of the most compassionate things we can do to actually -- >> cut programs. >> you are only focusing on half the equation, right? you are focusing on recipients of the money. we are trying to focus on the recipients of the money and people who give us the money in the first place. simple message by the way. i put myself in t...