Dem Strategist: The Big Beautiful Bill ‘Is the Worst Piece of Legislation to Pass Congress in My Professional Life’

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BENNETT: "Yeah, look, if we can‘t figure out a way to take this bill, which I have to say is the worst piece of legislation to pass Congress in my professional life, which is getting to be 40 years, if we can‘t make this work for us politically, then shame on us. This bill is cruel, it is stupid, it is self-defeating. It‘s cruel because it takes away health care from almost 16 million people, most of them poor. It snatches food out of the mouths of children, 3 million poor people and kids will lose school lunch help and SNAP aid. And it does it to give an enormous tax break almost entirely to rich people. And as you say, the benefits cut, you know, start soon, but they‘re delaying the Medicaid cuts and the other things until later. I think that sometimes the work in Washington is complicated and people don‘t really get it, and sometimes it‘s very simple. And this is very simple. $4 trillion added to the debt, people thrown off their health care, food aid taken away, clean energy tax cuts eliminated, and $4 trillion more to give rich people tax breaks they don‘t need."