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The Young Turks

Bernie's Wage War

The Young Turks

TYT Network

Government, Politics, News

45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

As Republicans try to distance themselves from Trump, they fight to preserve his 2017 tax cuts and oppose action on COVID relief. Mitt Romney describes the Biden plan’s price tag as “pretty shocking” while Susan Collins says she has “a lot of unanswered questions” about how the administration came up with $1.9 trillion dollars.

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Welcome everyone. You're watching The Young Turks with Anika Asparian.

1:07.8

And Ida Rodriguez, she joins us today. She's the host of the Truth Serum Podcast.

1:12.9

Make sure you subscribe. Ida, how you doing?

1:15.6

Hey, I'm doing good. I'm back. I'm back after the mess that happened a few weeks ago.

1:24.0

So I feel a lot better. I mean, I know we got a lot of work to do,

1:27.6

but I do feel better. I would be lying if I didn't say that I did.

1:32.4

Yeah, no, I definitely hear you. I mean, a few weeks ago, seeing what happened in the Capitol,

1:36.4

and not really knowing where we were headed after that was kind of terrifying.

1:41.0

But things are starting to settle down a little bit. We're seeing some good executive orders

1:47.2

coming from Joe Biden and some promising signs from Senator Bernie Sanders as he

1:53.2

becomes the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. So we'll give you some updates on the

1:57.8

possibility of a $15 minimum wage later in the show. But for now, we're going to discuss a little

2:05.1

bit about the Trump tax cuts and whether Republicans are going to serve as a giant obstacle to

2:12.9

repealing at least a portion of those tax cuts. Later in the show, we're also going to discuss

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