Rep. Jayapal Claims $3.5T Spending ‘Is a Zero-Dollar Bill … Paid for with Taxes on the Wealthiest’

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JAYAPAL: "I think we should — look, first of all, as I said to the President and I heard him say, this is a zero-dollar bill, because it's all going to be paid for with taxes on the wealthiest corporations and the wealthiest individuals, which, by the way, makes it more popular than it was even before. And it's already very popular. But, ultimately, I think it depends on what we put in there. We put our proposal out. It was — it cost $3.5 trillion when you add everything up. But if somebody wants to take something out, we need to hear what that is. I don't know what — I don't know what the alternative proposal is, so it's difficult for me to say."