Schumer: ‘God Bless the People Who Are in the Top 1 Percent, But They Don’t Need the Help’

‘It’s the people struggling to feed their families, pay the rent, help the kids in school that need the help’

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SCHUMER: “That sounds good to me, Mr. President. 100 million shots in people's arms and 100 million checks in people's pockets. Democrats are delivering what we promised. Now, we've heard a lot about how the American Rescue Plan will help Americans who need it the most. The 20 percent of Americans at the lowest levels of income will receive the highest levels of support. It's about time. We had the mirror image of that when our Republican colleagues ran the Senate, where the top one percent did the best and the bottom 20 percent were totally ignored. That's backwards. God bless the people who are in the top one percent, but they don't need the help. It's the people struggling to feed their families, pay the rent, help the kids in school that need the help. And we're doing it, first time in a while."

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