MEDICARE ON THE LINE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
House Republicans hope to use the deficit created by Republican tax cuts to defund Medicare and other social programs. Do Republicans actually care about the health of Americans?
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| 0:51.1 | Dear Kevin McCarthy, 25% of the national debt was incurred during the roughly 25% |
| 1:00.1 | was incurred out of the 240 years who've been a republic, was incurred during the Trump administration. |
| 1:06.6 | This is pretty amazing, there's a piece about this over a daily coze. |
| 1:09.9 | In fact, the headline is 25% of US national debt occurred over 230 years, |
| 1:14.0 | incurred over 230 years happened during the Trump administration. |
| 1:19.0 | It is pretty startling, you know, the Trump tax cut really, really jacked our debt. |
| 1:24.4 | And it was, you know, during a time, or it led up to a tie, actually the tax cut was in 2017, |
| 1:29.4 | the COVID crisis was 2020, but it led up to a time when the economy crashed on top of that. |
| 1:36.0 | And so, you know, all this, all this money was flowing out. |
| 1:40.8 | David Jolly, the former Republican Congressman from Florida, tweeted this this morning, |
| 1:45.8 | he tweeted for context, roughly 25% of our total national debt incurred over the last 230 years, |
| 1:52.0 | actually occurred during the four years of the Trump administration. |
| 1:54.6 | That's right, 25% of our entire national debt all during the Trump years. |
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