Senator Bernie Sanders had Trump’s Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in front of him for questioning and asked him some questions—of course, he first prefaced this all by addressing the giant financial elephant in the room: the CBO report that Republicans are all pretending isn’t a thing anymore.
I find it strange that Mulvaney and other Trump Republicans disparage the Director of the CBO, when it was Republican Tom Price who appointed Keith Hall in the first place. Let’s get that clear.
Sen. Sanders runs down the basic math of wealth inequality in America for Mulvaney before taking on his and Trump’s cosmic joke of a budget proposal. He mentions the billionaire families who would benefit from the tax breaks that Republicans want.
I want you to answer one question, and I want you to tell the American people why you think it is a good idea to give three trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top one percent, at a time when the rich are becoming much richer? While at the same time you are going to throw seventeen millions children in this country off of health insurance because of the unconscionable cuts you are making to Medicaid? While you are going to throw seniors in the state of Wyoming or the state of Vermont off the Meals on Wheels program—maybe the one nutritious program that they get a day? While you are going to throw women and low-income babies off of the WIC program, at a time when infant mortality rates int his country are already high? You really think it’s a great idea to tell a low-income pregnant woman that you’re going to take away the WIC program, take away nutirtion programs from children, in order to give a massive tax break—a fifty-two billions dollars to the Walton family? Please explain your logic to the American people.
Mulvaney proceeds to bullshit about his made-up numbers that omit inflation and pretend that virtually every and any issue is “unknowable” and therefore nonexistent. When you don’t have an argument, the cowardly and anti-intellectual try to find victories in technicalities—even the “perception” of a technicality will do for these craven assholes. Sen. Sanders realizes that Mulvaney will continue to lie by saying things like Medicaid isn’t being cut, and so Sen. Sanders just lets loose on him and the harsh reality that this is a tax break for the rich—for which there really is no response.
Senator Lindsey Graham follows the heated exchange, and just in case you had any illusions that Sen. Graham (and Sen. McCain for that matter) may have some semblance of morality when it comes to Trump and Russia, just listen to Sen. Graham use a joke to defuse the seriousness of Sanders’ statements and Mulvaney’s evasions. They are talking about throwing millions of children and families off of health insurance and taking away food from both young and old. Lindsey Graham, Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump and the whole party they represent are the moral equivalent of the devil’s toilet bowl.