Bernie Sanders: The BBB Is 'The Most Dangerous Piece Of Legislation' Passed In Modern US History

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At a "Fight Oligarchy" event on Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about the Republican budget.

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00:00he is supposed to be about

00:10and I'll give you another another example

00:15as part of his love of the oligarchy

00:19Donald Trump and his Republican friends gave us

00:23the so-called big beautiful bill

00:31in my view that bill is the most dangerous piece of legislation passed

00:37in the modern history of the United States

00:40it is a vulgar piece of legislation

00:44and anyone who voted for that bill

00:47should not be returned to office

00:53at a time of massive income and wealth inequality

01:06that bill gave a trillion dollars in tax breaks

01:11to the one percent

01:13nine hundred billion in tax breaks

01:16for large profitable corporations

01:21now that is vulgar

01:24but what is even more vulgar

01:26is that in order to pay for those huge tax breaks

01:30they cut Medicaid by a trillion dollars

01:33and cut the Affordable Care Act

01:36that some 15 million Americans are going to lose the health care that they have

01:43including hundreds of thousands right here in Michigan

01:51so you got one reality

01:55people on top enormously powerful

01:59doing extraordinarily well

02:01controlling the political system

02:03getting huge tax breaks

02:06and then there is another reality

02:09and that reality is that in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world

02:14today

02:16sixty percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck

02:22I grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck

02:29many of you are in families living paycheck to paycheck

02:35and what living paycheck to paycheck is about

02:39is everyday undergoing the stress

02:43of wondering how you are going to feed your kids

02:46pay the rent

02:47go to the doctor if somebody gets sick

02:50and wondering maybe

02:52maybe

02:53when you get old

02:55will you be able to have a few bucks in the bank

02:57so you can enjoy some kind of security in your old age

03:02in your old age

03:04and every single day

03:06tens of millions of families

03:08are struggling with that stress

03:11and with that reality

03:13and you know what that stress does to people?

03:18it kills them

03:21now what you don't hear much about

03:24is that in America today

03:26despite the fact that we are the wealthiest country on earth

03:29our life expectancy

03:31how long we live

03:33is four years on average shorter

03:36than in other wealthy countries around the world

03:39that is a shame

03:41but I'll tell you what is even more shameful

03:44and you don't know this because you never hear about it

03:46if you are working class in this country

03:50you will live seven years shorter lives

03:55than the wealthy

03:57in other words

04:00the stress that the working class

04:02and lower income Americans are dealing with now

04:05it's not just that they don't have a fancy house

04:08or a fancy car

04:10or they go out to big restaurants

04:12who cares?

04:13what is going on

04:14is that stress

04:15is actually killing people

04:18all across this country

04:20who are struggling to survive

04:22and in the richest country on earth

04:24that should not be happening

04:26so our job

04:41it seems to me

04:43is to do what the American people want us to do

04:47and that is to take on Trump

04:50every step of the way

04:52but we have got to do more than that

05:04what we need to have

05:06which we don't have

05:07certainly Republicans don't have it

05:09as they move lockstep into authoritarianism

05:13and the Democrats don't have it

05:16because they are also controlled by big money

05:19what we need is a vision for America

05:22that works for working people

05:24not just the 1%

05:26the 2%.

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