Senator Chris Van Hollen
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290 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 30 May
Senator Chris Van Hollen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if you look at the overall benefits of the Trump plan, about 75 percent go to the top 20 percent and about 50 percent go to the top 5 percent.
Whereas in our bill, it's the folks at the 80% and below that will see all the benefits that do flow from this bill.
So we're actually focused on those working Americans.
He's focused on the billionaires.
Yeah, this is a bill that will help the folks that Trump claimed he was helping.
And it's going to be those folks who are essentially earning a paycheck,
and that paycheck is enough to support their basic living expenses.
And we don't want them to have to pay a federal income tax and essentially have a living wage taken away.
So effectively, we're talking about working people, middle-class Americans,
who often are getting screwed in this process.
And they're the folks who will benefit, and they will benefit significantly.
Like I said, 130 million Americans will benefit from this, and it will be paid for by the folks making over a million dollars every single year, who've been making off out like bandits, especially those who are earning a lot of money off of money, as opposed to money off of hard work.
So...
Let me put it this way.
The affordability equation has two sides to it, right?
They're the costs, which are going up and up and up, and we need to contain them, right?
The cost of electricity, of groceries, of childcare, of healthcare.
And we need to really ramp down on those costs by going after big money, special interests.
But then the other side of the equation is how much money you got here.
paycheck.
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