🔰Elizabeth Warren drops BAD NEWS on Trump budget

So we are right now in the midst of some negotiations, which has proven a little bit more difficult for Republicans than they had anticipated. Because you've got some Republicans who are having trouble making this debate. Not because of the fact that they don't have enough health care, not because they can't stand up to Americans, but because the cuts aren't deep enough. It's a word of caution. Right now, the bill is still actually being passed. I know that it's in the House, so this isn't the exact communication. Eventually, we'll get to that. Oh, but we're part of this. I mean, watching it, and watching it unfold, and you have the exact same pattern. The fight among Republican Democrats is basically, we go with a bill that tells 14 million people they're going to lose their health care, and raises the cost of groceries for tens of millions of people. Oh, and raises the cost of utilities for people all across this country. Remember Trump's promise that he would lower costs on open media? This is the bill that delivers raising costs for Americans. So, they're fighting over just how much and how much should go up. 14 million people are going to lose their health care, 20 million people are going to lose their health care, a million people are going to go on hunger, or five million people are going to go on hunger. All of it. All of it is for a new model. All of it is so close to, we've got to put more into tax cutaways for a handful of billions. So, I think of this right now as a fight for how many people should go so that markets can buy another Hawaiian island. We want to think about what this would actually mean for the future of the United States. So, what role does it play in this? If we don't do this, this eliminates the biggest tax cut in American history. So, what does this look like in effect, both with the highest earners, but then middle income earners, and the lowest income earners? Okay, so, the deal. Let's start in the beginning. At the high end, what this bill does is remember that they passed a tax in November 2018, but it expired, and it's expiring now. And it was mostly sucked up, $3.00 was mostly sucked up by Illuminati as a means to protect American citizens. That is expiring. So, what they want to do is they want to give those middle income earners a little set of tax giveaways. It will be the biggest in American history from the poorest Americans to the richest Americans. That's just the whole deal. And so, at the top of the page, it is a great deal. It says, you don't have to tax basically anyway, but we want to actually give you stuff. We want to give you credits for taxes you didn't pay, and then the government will take away the paycheck. That's what they're doing around things like so-called desertion reductions. But the other end of it gets noticed the same way. The other end of it is some of the most expensive and the most expensive, some of the most expensive things were there when you guys were short for their medical care coverage. Right now, $1,400 million just flew in and the money goes straight to the top. Americans, we know how to look at this stuff and we know how to manage it, and we know how to value their resources, because they're writing to Mexico, because they want to make Mexico a good place. And that's, that's what they want us to do. What happens in the middle of the day, for example, Costco, because for them to be able to do this as an independent company, they want to get all of the money in the United States market out of the General Trust now. And that, in the middle of the day, get that solar, get that wind up, that stuff is cheap to operate, a lot cheaper than having to buy oil and wind after wind after wind. So all that is going to happen is that everyone's going to spend more cost to start doing that. And I'm not sure if it was like the paperwork analysis or the CEO or something, one of these committees that squirreled with this tax bill, but it's something like $389,000 tax reduction for the top 1%, and then we have for middle earners, you would actually see a tax increase of about $700, and for lowest earners, a tax increase of $1,000. So, you know, these are really, I mean, you're borrowing from, you're borrowing from the poor to be able to pay the rich in this country, which is going to explain itself to this next question. And that is that when it comes to these tax cuts, they're always structured. Like, we don't have tax cuts that we don't have the middle class tax cuts or the working class tax cuts that's so often promised. It always ends up being a tax cut that's for the wealthy. And so there is this sense of, okay, well, this is the best we've got. And so even with the 2017 tax cut, if there was some tangential benefit, if the lowest earners in this country, if the working poor in this country get a few hundred dollars, and granted, it's crumbs compared to the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the highest earners get, still, there's this sense that, okay, well, a few hundred dollars is still better than nothing, and so we'll just swallow it. And so there's this sense of, okay, we have to be happy with the crumbs that we're being given because the alternative is no crumbs at all. And so I'm just curious to speak to that idea that we've become normalized to and accustomed to this idea that, yes, it's crumbs. We know it's crumbs. We know it pales in comparison to what the highest earners in this country are getting, but that's how it goes, and so it's better than nothing. Right, so let me start. We can do whatever we want. The first answer is, this is what we've become normalized to. This is taking it away. We are actually going to, the Republicans are going to and they're actually going to eat up all of this bill. So the crumbs analogy, no crumbs, but let's get a second one. And then it's just, this ain't over. People have power. And talk about the funny crowd and how many come out. Listen, part of it is, the Republicans are even more extreme, saying, more babies need to lose health care, more people need to go hungry. But there's much more than the Republicans saying, whew, the wages have been in it. We're all going to be able to re-elect again in 2026. And starting to overlook that maybe we should have a whole new reasoning about this. So this is the moment for people to pick up the ball, get on the main page and turn to text their references that have come out of the House. And this is true whether their references are Democrats, Democrats, call them, text them, email them, and if you already just have a lot, do it again. Do it again and do it again. Because it is what I want to be saying right now. So nobody has to accept that this is how it always is. The ball is in the air. Right? And remember, this is what we call mail. This is what I meant when I said I feel like I want you to see on a capital hill as you and I speak. This is the moment for you all. How does this get on the audience when you have deep cuts and you've got one faction who says, okay, we kick, we explode the deficit, we want repair, and so we have to have deeper cuts here to try and offset these tax cuts that you've got to take out. They all feel like tax cuts we don't like. So it's a matter of asking about as it stands right now or trying to salvage some part of the deficit that makes deeper cuts and the other side of the offset is tax cuts. It's deeper cuts. You're looking at healthcare, it's deeper cuts. It's food stamps. It's tax cuts. It's all the money where you have the quasi-deficit box and you're pretending that you're above the deficit but then you have the... But that's the other problem which is, okay, now you've got to intend to bring people who have to go back to their districts and say, it's not just, you know, 20% of the people who have to pay but for now it's going to be 25%. Now it's going to be 30%. All right. You just keep playing around. Right, right. You know? Ha! It just shows the kind of guy you are. But that's part of the problem. The part of what's happening is that there are assumptions around. The British were the president of this. The president won only yesterday. And so we're going to make all these cuts. And don't worry about what I'm talking about. He said he was not going to touch healthcare. You're going to have more healthcare. They asked him about food assistance. He goes, you're going to have more food assistance. So there's this... It's urban food. We're living in the Upside Down right now where they were cutting these things. But then he's claiming that somehow not only are they not being cut, they're going to be more food assistance. Right. No. So I think it makes sense. Yeah. And I want to say hundreds of millions of Americans and millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of Americans and millions of Americans but we know that that is going to be made as a political goal of millions of families and it's going to be terrible for the economy. So we're going to pass the law now about what health care is and it's not going to explode until right after the election. That way, we don't have to deny reality. We can all go out and all of those super-populist saying no. Nobody got hurt here. Nobody's been hurt. Stop being so hysterical about this. It doesn't make sense right now what's going on. But hundreds of millions of Americans are going to be cut. They're going to get hurt. Indeed. We're going to win the taxes to health care. We're going to win the taxes so we're going to have to take care of everything we need to take care of. And it's not only for our families, but it's taking care of all of our communities. It's starting to break the system of prescription medicine in general. Billionaire women still thrive in her prescription medicine. But for everybody else, the system starts to break down and we got to solve it. And finally, we have one more important issue right now and that is it's all going to be because we need less money anyway. Sure, you know, the federal budget is going to have whatever it has to do with paying 85% less on all health care benefits. And I'm curious to hear your reactions to that because it would seem to me that the only reason that we exist is because we can write whatever edicts we want and people can take it out and that's it. It's a universe that's not going to manifest on its own right to reality. And if it was possible for a president to just say 85% off pharmaceuticals you know, sign name here, it probably would have happened before. And so, I'm curious what your thoughts are on this because really, the way that I think about this is the only way to get the drug prices down is to be able to negotiate, to have a single payer negotiate and that is the government and we don't do that. And in fact, Donald Trump, by virtue of being President of the United States, is entrenching a system where we don't have the government negotiating lower drug prices. And that's why other countries do have lower drug prices because they allow the government to be the single entity that negotiates those prices down because they're our merchants and we have to negotiate those prices And so, I'm curious what your reaction is because you're obviously much better at negotiating those prices than I am. No, no, you have it exactly, exactly right. What Donald Trump claims is he's going to reduce the cost of drugs by 25%, his so-called executive order on this says will you all consider lowering the prices by a lot? It's actually equivalent to him tweeting Vladimir Stalin. Yeah, exactly. It's Vladimir Stalin. You know what he's trying to say all the time. It's Vladimir Stalin. And here's the deal. We should change how human rights rights. We should negotiate them. I don't think we're going to stay on the national security structure. I think that could be really good. But you've got to come over here to Congress. You've got to write legislation and you've got to make them apply. It can't just be the President of the United States being the first one to make legislation. You've got to make legislation because the President of the a lot to say I'm right here. You know, it's a slim picture there. Not much. Not very populated these days. As always, I appreciate your time. Get the word out. Go home.