Bernie Sanders RIPS Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ As Billionaire Payoff | 16M Thrown Off Healthcare? - video Dailymotion

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Sen. Bernie Sanders strongly opposes President Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” calling it the most dangerous legislation in modern U.S. history. Sanders claims the bill is a billionaire-funded payoff that gives $975 billion in tax breaks to the top 1%, while slashing $1.1 trillion from healthcare programs like Medicaid and ACA—potentially leaving 16 million uninsured. With studies predicting 50,000 avoidable deaths per year, Sanders calls the bill a "death sentence" for working-class Americans and a devastating blow to rural hospitals already on the brink.        #BernieSanders #TrumpBill #BillionaireBill #MedicaidCuts #AffordableCareAct #HealthcareCrisis #SenateFloor #TaxBreaks #TrumpTaxPlan #BillionaireClass #WorkingClass #RuralHospitals #HealthcareForAll #SandersSpeech #TrumpVsSanders #MedicareCuts #HealthcareJustice #TrumpAgenda #PoliticalCorruption #BigPharma #CampaignFinance #UnfairEconomy #TaxPolicy #GOPBill #CBOReport #PublicHealth #HealthcareInequality #TrumpHealthcarePlan #SandersFightsBack #TrumpDeathBill #HealthJusticeNow      Also Read  'Close Up Shop And Move Back To South Africa': US President Donald Trump's Deportation Warning To Elon Musk :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/close-up-shop-and-move-back-to-south-africa-us-president-donald-trumps-deportation-warning-to-el-7788061.html?ref=DMDesc  Top Iranian Cleric Declares Fatwa Against Donald Trump, Netanyahu :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/top-iranian-cleric-declares-fatwa-against-donald-trump-netanyahu-7786905.html?ref=DMDesc  Trump Intends To Resolve North Korea Conflict Amid Reports Of Rejected Letter :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/trump-intends-to-resolve-north-korea-conflict-amid-reports-of-rejected-letter-7785511.html?ref=DMDesc

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00:00Thanks very much for joining me.

00:02Let me be very clear.

00:05Trump's so-called big, beautiful bill, now on the floor of the Senate,

00:10is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation

00:14ever brought forth in the modern history of our country.

00:18It is a gift to the billionaire class

00:21while causing massive pain for working families.

00:26Thanks very much for joining me.

00:28Let me be very clear.

00:32Trump's so-called big, beautiful bill, now on the floor of the Senate,

00:36is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation

00:40ever brought forth in the modern history of our country.

00:45It is a gift to the billionaire class

00:47while causing massive pain for working families.

00:52Actually, I'm wrong.

00:53I shouldn't use the word gift because the billionaires paid for it.

00:58This bill is an absolute reflection of a corrupt campaign finance system.

01:04The billionaires invest hundreds of millions of dollars in candidates and in elections.

01:10And in this bill, this piece of legislation, their investment is paying off.

01:16So, what are they getting?

01:19Well, the top 1% is receiving $975 billion in tax breaks.

01:26Further, and this is really quite unbelievable,

01:29the wealthiest two-tenths of 1% receive a $211 billion estate tax break.

01:39$211 billion for the top two-tenths of 1%.

01:45In that provision, 99.8% of Americans get zero.

01:50Further, large corporations in this bill get a $918 billion tax break.

01:58That is what the 1% and the wealthy campaign contributors get.

02:04So, here's what you get, assuming you're not a billionaire.

02:09This bill throws over 16 million people off of the health insurance they have

02:15by slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act by over $1.1 trillion.

02:22So, $1 trillion in tax breaks for the 1%, $1 trillion in cuts in Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.

02:33Further, it forces millions of Medicaid recipients to pay a $35 copayment every time they visit a doctor.

02:41So, what is the impact of all this?

02:43What happens when you throw 16 million people off health care, you impose a $35 copayment?

02:50Well, what the Yale School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania estimate

02:56is that if this reconciliation bill is enacted, and it's unbelievable for me to say this,

03:03but this is what they are telling us, this is what they have studied.

03:06If this bill goes through and all these health care cuts take place,

03:10over 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily each and every year.

03:1850,000 Americans. In other words, this bill is a horrific death sentence,

03:25a death sentence for low-income and working-class Americans.

03:31Further, if this legislation is enacted, rural hospitals all over the country that are already

03:37struggling would be forced to shut down.

03:39In other words, this legislation is the most significant attack on the health care needs of

03:53the American people in the modern history of our country.

03:56So, our health care system is broken, it's dysfunctional, and they make it even worse.

04:02And that's not all. This bill wipes out nutrition assistance for millions of hungry kids

04:09at a time when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of nearly any major nation on Earth.

04:16This bill will also make it much harder for working-class kids to receive the higher education they need

04:22by cutting education by some $350 billion.

04:27At a time when the planet is struggling with climate change, heat waves now all over the world,

04:33this bill decimates investment in energy efficiency and sustainable energies like wind and solar.

04:39So, if you are concerned about how the United States keeps getting into never-ending wars,

04:47this bill makes a bad situation even worse by handing out another $150 billion to the Pentagon,

04:57a 15% increase in an already bloated Pentagon budget.

05:04Now, I want to applaud all of the Democrats, every single one of them,

05:08who strongly oppose this bill. And I want to congratulate two Republicans,

05:14Senators Paul and Senator Tillis, for voting with the Democrats in opposition to proceeding on this bill.

05:21But here is something really interesting and quite telling about where the Republican Party is today.

05:29When Senator Tillis of North Carolina indicated that he would vote against the bill,

05:35he was lambasted on social media by Trump and he was threatened with a primary.

05:43He actually did not do what Trump wanted him to do. Is there anything in this world that is worse than that?

05:52Today, Senator Tillis announced that he would not seek re-election.

05:57So, it is pretty clear to me, and I would hope to every American, that the Republican Party of today does not tolerate any independent thought.

06:10One might have believed that members of Congress were elected to represent their constituents,

06:17to do what they thought right for their constituents.

06:20But that's not what it is in the Republican Party right now.

06:26The sole function of Republican members of Congress is just to tell Donald Trump how brilliant he is,

06:33how infallible he is, how great he is, put up a, you know, a statue of him on Mount Rushmore.

06:40And if any Republican, like Senator Tillis, suggests otherwise, they will be politically destroyed.

06:49This is pathetic, and it has all of the hallmarks of the kind of authoritarian society that Trump wants to take us into.

06:59Dissent is simply not tolerated anymore within Republican ranks.

07:04I don't have to tell anybody that this is an extremely difficult moment in American history.

07:12Trump and the oligarchs have unlimited wealth.

07:16They have a great deal of power, and they want more.

07:19But there is something that we have.

07:23And we saw that just last week in the recent mayoral primary in New York City.

07:31So what you had is one candidate supported by all of the big money interests, all of the oligarchs.

07:40But you had the other candidate who was supported by ordinary people.

07:44And guess who won?

07:46The guy, Mr. Mamdani, who was supported by rank and file New Yorkers, won the election.

07:54So I think what we can learn from that is that if we stand together

07:59and not let Trump and his friends divide us up based on our religion or where we were born

08:05or our sexual orientation or the color of our skin, if we stand together, we can beat the oligarchs.

08:14And let me tell you, in this moment in history, that is exactly what we've got to do.

08:19Thanks very much.

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Bernie Sanders RIPS Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ As Billionaire Payoff | 16M Thrown Off Healthcare?

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