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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Grilled On CNN About Trump's 'Wins'

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Florida Democrat (D-FL) joined CNN’s Sara Sidner on Thursday to discuss President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill and was pressed on whether or not Trump’s agenda is actually working.

After introducing the House Democrat, Sidner asked, “I know you are there on Capitol Hill and listening to all this. Look, here are some things that have happened. Gas prices down. Economic indicators are decent. Brand new jobs report shows that it’s much better than expected, and border crossings are down. And now, Trump’s mega-spending bill looks like it’s going to be passed by Republicans. How do you Democrats fight back against the wins that Trump can tout?”

“Well, it depends on how you define wins, Sarah. I mean, the way I can summarize this big, ugly bill best is Republicans caved, Trump lied, and people will die,” hit back Wasserman-Schultz, adding:

This bill does kick 17 million people off of their health care. That’s people who are on Medicaid, who are extremely vulnerable, like veterans and the elderly, the disabled, and children. We’re talking about the largest cuts to nutrition assistance, meaning people are going to go hungry, 4 million people lose their nutrition assistance. 31,000 in my district alone. You have 70,000 who will lose Medicaid.

This is a bill that is going to cause tremendous pain, and it is incredibly unpopular with the public because they don’t want their government to actually take away things that ensure that they can remain healthy and safe and that their families can be cared for and that they can have a middle-class lifestyle. This bill is all in service to taking care of the wealthiest, most fortunate Americans. It explodes the deficit and it raises the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars to give tax breaks to the wealthy. That jobs report you just mentioned, the overwhelming majority of those jobs are actually government jobs. And education jobs that look to be more like substitute teachers.

There are really not many jobs in that jobs report that they can point to that are in the private market. So it’s a hollow jobs report and you’re going to see over the next year and a half the incredible pain that this big ugly bill will cost people and we are on the House floor behind our Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries to make sure people know just what’s in it because the Republicans are doing this again in the dead of night, when people don’t know what’s going on.

“We’ve been seeing ads from Democrats already hitting the airwaves about this bill. Voters will get the tax cuts first it appears in this bill and then the Medicaid cuts. Those work requirements for example could start by 2027, and states can delay that until 2028. Have Democrats calculated when voters will feel the impacts of this bill, and whether they can then use it in the midterms against their opponents?” Sidner followed up.

“Absolutely, a lot of the most significant Medicaid pain happens right away,” replied Wasserman-Schultz, seeming to miss the thrust of the question.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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