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Senators Sanders & Warren Tear Into $235 Billion Giveaway to Billionaires - Liberal Lens
This wasn’t a hearing — it was a moral reckoning.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren confronted Trump’s Treasury Secretary after the GOP’s estate tax law passed — delivering $235 billion in tax breaks to the richest families in America, while cutting Medicaid, closing rural hospitals, and ripping coverage from 16 million Americans.
This new law triggered real-world consequences:
Healthcare wiped out for seniors and working families
Rural and low-income hospitals shutting down
NIH research stalled, prenatal care cut, patients turning to GoFundMe
All so billionaires like the Trumps, Kochs, and Waltons could dodge taxes on inherited wealth.
Bernie Sanders called it what it is: immoral.
Elizabeth Warren exposed the math: this law fuels inequality and debt, while doing nothing for the middle class.
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