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Amanda

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We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

It's just embarrassing intellectually. I mean, not to mention just the cruelty and the inhumanity, but just as an intellectual people, it's humiliating.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Yes. Say that to them right after. I know. So over and over and over, this is absolutely what we're not going to do. We're going to find the cut somewhere else. But then actually, this is what we're going to do. You said $800 billion with a B dollars are going to be cut from Medicare? Yes. Medicaid?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Yes. Say that to them right after. I know. So over and over and over, this is absolutely what we're not going to do. We're going to find the cut somewhere else. But then actually, this is what we're going to do. You said $800 billion with a B dollars are going to be cut from Medicare? Yes. Medicaid?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Yes. Say that to them right after. I know. So over and over and over, this is absolutely what we're not going to do. We're going to find the cut somewhere else. But then actually, this is what we're going to do. You said $800 billion with a B dollars are going to be cut from Medicare? Yes. Medicaid?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This feels unconscionable to do. You've got the most vulnerable children, the most vulnerable older people, the people with special needs who are going to have their health insurance cut. But this is not an austerity measure. This is not, we don't have enough money, so we're making these cuts. We are making these cuts because we are prioritizing tax cuts to the top 1% of American earners, right?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This feels unconscionable to do. You've got the most vulnerable children, the most vulnerable older people, the people with special needs who are going to have their health insurance cut. But this is not an austerity measure. This is not, we don't have enough money, so we're making these cuts. We are making these cuts because we are prioritizing tax cuts to the top 1% of American earners, right?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This feels unconscionable to do. You've got the most vulnerable children, the most vulnerable older people, the people with special needs who are going to have their health insurance cut. But this is not an austerity measure. This is not, we don't have enough money, so we're making these cuts. We are making these cuts because we are prioritizing tax cuts to the top 1% of American earners, right?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

The reason they need to come up with this 800 billion is because their line in the sand is we will allow the richest of the rich to have even more money. The whole point of this is tax cuts for the rich, right? Is that's why we have to find this money to pay for it?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

The reason they need to come up with this 800 billion is because their line in the sand is we will allow the richest of the rich to have even more money. The whole point of this is tax cuts for the rich, right? Is that's why we have to find this money to pay for it?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

The reason they need to come up with this 800 billion is because their line in the sand is we will allow the richest of the rich to have even more money. The whole point of this is tax cuts for the rich, right? Is that's why we have to find this money to pay for it?

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Okay, so they're going to require work requirements of the most vulnerable children and the most vulnerable elderly. I mean, that's a reach. Okay, so I was trying to explain this to my kids last night, this whole situation that we're under. And I feel like this is something that I'm like, There has always been an absolutely ridiculous wealth inequality in this country.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Okay, so they're going to require work requirements of the most vulnerable children and the most vulnerable elderly. I mean, that's a reach. Okay, so I was trying to explain this to my kids last night, this whole situation that we're under. And I feel like this is something that I'm like, There has always been an absolutely ridiculous wealth inequality in this country.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Okay, so they're going to require work requirements of the most vulnerable children and the most vulnerable elderly. I mean, that's a reach. Okay, so I was trying to explain this to my kids last night, this whole situation that we're under. And I feel like this is something that I'm like, There has always been an absolutely ridiculous wealth inequality in this country.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

But I feel like these people, if they want to maintain that, are really overplaying their hand. Because in this bill that they're talking about passing, the Republicans in Congress are talking about passing per Trump's pressure, is the top 0.1% gets more from this tax bill than the bottom 50%. 50% of America.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

But I feel like these people, if they want to maintain that, are really overplaying their hand. Because in this bill that they're talking about passing, the Republicans in Congress are talking about passing per Trump's pressure, is the top 0.1% gets more from this tax bill than the bottom 50%. 50% of America.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

But I feel like these people, if they want to maintain that, are really overplaying their hand. Because in this bill that they're talking about passing, the Republicans in Congress are talking about passing per Trump's pressure, is the top 0.1% gets more from this tax bill than the bottom 50%. 50% of America.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

I mean, that is wild. In a system that is already... I mean, the top 1% of America holds more than 30% of America's wealth. Top 1% holds 30% of America's wealth. The bottom 50% of America holds less than 3% of America's wealth. That is like you're having a birthday party and you invite...

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

I mean, that is wild. In a system that is already... I mean, the top 1% of America holds more than 30% of America's wealth. Top 1% holds 30% of America's wealth. The bottom 50% of America holds less than 3% of America's wealth. That is like you're having a birthday party and you invite...

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

I mean, that is wild. In a system that is already... I mean, the top 1% of America holds more than 30% of America's wealth. Top 1% holds 30% of America's wealth. The bottom 50% of America holds less than 3% of America's wealth. That is like you're having a birthday party and you invite...

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

All the people in America and a hundred of them show up and you call one of them forward and you give them a third of the cake. And then you call 50 of them forward and you take a slice that is one tenth of the piece that you just gave that one person and have all 50 of them share it. And that is the status quo.