Sanders on Trump Cabinet: they have a few poor millionaires on it, but, mostly, it is billionaires [View all]
Bernie Sanders blasts Donald Trump's "Cabinet of billionaires"
Emily Schultheis
CBS News
“I guess they have a few poor millionaires on it, but, mostly, it is billionaires,” Sanders told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “And this is coming from a candidate for president, Mr. Trump, who told us he was going to take on the establishment. Well, maybe I am not seeing something here, but you don’t appoint the head of ExxonMobil to be secretary of state. That is not quite taking on the establishment.”
“He said: I, Donald Trump, am not going to cut Social Security. I’m not going to cut Medicare. I’m not going to cut Medicaid,” Sanders said. “And yet we are seeing Republicans in the Congress coming forward with devastating plans to cut Social Security, to cut Medicare. And I challenge Mr. Trump, today, tell the American people you are going to keep your campaign promises.”
Sanders also said the United States needs to take a “hard look” at Russia’s role in influencing the election, just days after multiple news reports confirmed that Russia was actively trying to promote Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
“I think when you have the intelligence agencies saying that that happened, when you have John McCain, when you have Democrats, when you have a bipartisan effort saying that we need an investigation, because this is very serious stuff, I think we go forward,” he said.
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