Sanders and Mulvaney Clash Over Budget: ‘Please Explain Your Logic to the American People’

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SANDERS: "My question is pretty simple. I want you to tell the American people why you think it is a good idea to give $3 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1 percent at a time when the rich are becoming much richer, while at the same time you're going to throw 17 million children in this country off of health insurance, because of the unconscionable cuts that you are making to Medicaid, why you're 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, why you're going to throw women and low-income babies off of the W.I.C. program at a time when infant mortality rates in this country are already high. Do you really think it's a great idea to tell a low-income pregnant woman that you're going to take away the W.I.C. program, take away nutrition programs from children, in order to give a massive tax break of $52 billion to the Walton family? Please explain your logic to the American people."