Cory Booker
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Cory Booker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Don Lemon Show · Lemon LIVE at 5 | Cory Booker Stands Up to MAGA - April 1st, 2025 · 1 Apr 2025
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Is it some big idea like we did to lower prescription drug costs?
No, that's not what he's doing.
Is his first priority helping our veterans?
No.
What is his first priority?
As I said, it's extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, a multi-trillion dollar giveaway that slashed corporate taxes and overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and left the middle class with crumbs, relative crumbs.
He and his allies promised that the benefits would trickle down to workers.
That was what we heard.
It would pay for itself, it was said.
But in 2022, the Fed and the Joint Committee on Taxation confirmed the truth.
90% of workers, 90% of folk in our states saw no benefit.
Now Trump and his GOP allies want to double down with even bigger tax cuts that have increased the deficit by over $4.5 trillion, the majority of which would go to the wealthiest people.
Let me read what the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and how they describe the plan.
Here's a quote of their writings.
Following a presidential campaign in which Donald Trump promised to improve the economic circumstances of working families, House Republicans are instead pushing to extend all expiring provisions of the costly 2017 tax law, which are heavily skewed to people with the highest incomes and add new tax cuts on top of that.
The Republican-controlled House passed a budget resolution on February 25th authorizing the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts through 2034 and called on committees to partially offset the cost with $2 trillion in cuts.
Are they cuts to the wealthiest?
No.
These cuts will inevitably hit programs such as Medicaid and SNAP, which help millions of families afford essential needs.
Extending the inspiring tax cuts for individuals and large estates would double down on the flaws in the 2017 law by...
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