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Congressman On Tax Breaks And Deficit00:07:53
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Very unfriendly and that won't be pleasant.
Thank you very much.
On the Gatori plane, Mr. Plano.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thanks, Dan.
And today, President Trump's Middle East trip continues in Connor with a state dinner.
The president expected to give remarks.
We'll have that live at 1245 p.m. Eastern on our companion network, C-SPAN3.
You can also watch on the free C-SPAN Now video app or online at c-SPAN.org.
Live picture this afternoon from the House Radio TV gallery.
Actually, it's still morning, but shortly.
Members of the House Democratic Leadership will hold a news conference as committees continue to consider GOP tax and spending legislation in support of President Trump's agenda.
Live coverage when that gets underway in just a couple of minutes here on C-SPAN.
I don't know exactly where, like in between D.C. and Richmond, they're opening up their first bucket.
Well, the Republicans might have some trouble in that some of their members want larger relief for their property taxpayers and state and local taxes.
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It's called SALT, and others don't want as large.
So that's a schism within the Republican caucus in the House.
And there's some others that don't want to see as much cuts.
They want to see more cuts, I guess.
Chip Roy wants to see more cuts.
And this adds to the what they're doing adds to the deficit.
And they claim to be wanting to limit the deficit, but they don't.
It's not about limiting the deficit.
It's about getting more and more money to people who have more and more money, who don't need any more money.
But that's the Republican Party's mantra.
And Trump's only accomplishment, major accomplishment in his first term was these tax cuts, which economists, by and large, just about every one of them that's credentialed and incredible, say did not stimulate the economy and was not successful in creating any kind of a boom to the economy and never do.
They've done these things before and they've always said, oh, it's good for the economy.
They'll spend the money.
It'll stimulate.
Never does.
So he's trying to do this again because he did it once.
He doesn't want to lose the fact that he did it.
But he also wants to take care of himself.
Mind you, he's one of the people, and every member of his family, every adult member of his family, I think except maybe Tiffany, makes enough money to where they will get tremendous tax advantages.
And to cut people out of Medicaid, to cut people out of SNAP payments, which is sustenance, besides helping the farmers who grow the products that go into the SNAP program, but to the people who need that to stay alive.
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They're living at the bottom level economically in our country.
That's where the super, super, super rich get to pass the money on to their children with no taxes to the government.
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That's been going on for years.
We used to have an exemption of like $3 million or something.
They raised it to $10 million.
They keep raising it.
And they basically get away, they get away with giving the kids all this money and just inherited wealth that doesn't help others.
And at some point or another, look, here's Gates wanting to give away all of his money.
Now, it's a voluntary thing, but he's showing character.
Warren Buffett's giving away a lot of his money.
He does a lot.
The rich people like that, they're giving money to people because they understand everybody needs help and they need to give it away to 501c3s and eliminate polio and eliminate PEPFAR and help people that may get AIDS from HIV and all.
We're having a hearing on where the bill we passed last year, the FA reauthorization, that has money in there for more and more air traffic controllers and more money for the school in Oklahoma City to get more air traffic controllers and sort monies into the system.
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We had a good bill, and it's going to be helpful, but it's got to be implemented.
I was in Newark, I guess it was a week ago, Friday, and my plane was supposed to leave at 7.
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And when I got there, about 4, they told me it was delayed till 9, and that I stayed around and hung around the Newark airport.
And then there was never anybody at the gate from United.
United didn't even put anybody at the gate to tell you what was going on.
And then about 8.30, I got a notice that it had been moved to a 10 o'clock flight.
Still nobody at the gate.
This was on my cell phone.
And then just two or three minutes later, they said, you're going to leave tomorrow morning.
And I thought, I'm not going to spend the night in some hotel out here and get up and early in the morning, get on a plane and come in.
So I saw on my own, without help from United, there was a flight to Dulles.
And I went to two different gates, and nobody at United wanted to help me.
The gate where the plane was supposed to leave, there was nobody there.
The next gate, there were two ladies.
They came up and they said, oh, we're off at 9.
This was 8.35.
I thought, fine, adios.
So I finally got somebody to help me.
It was difficult.
And the guy was not friendly and nice particularly, but he begrudgingly helped me.
Got me on the Dulles flight and I got on a bus and went to another terminal, sat on the tarmac for an hour and 15 minutes because we were 33rd in line to take off and finally got to Dulles.