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Rep. Raskin: GOP Message About Debt And Deficit Is ‘Tired, Old Rhetoric’ | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC - YouTube
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what is your sense here when it comes to
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this two thousand dollar direct pay i
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mean if you're
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you're a family of four that is a huge
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jump and could be a major boost to your
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household right for two adults
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you're gonna get two thousand dollars a
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piece that's four thousand dollars if
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you have two children essentially
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you would then subsequently get twelve
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hundred dollars extra
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that could help a lot it would
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help a lot of people hugely and
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beyond that we had the new legislation
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apply to all family dependents whether
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or not
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you're under 18. so that includes you
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know millions and millions of young
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people who are off in college and
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struggling under their
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college loans and so on um so
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this is you know the two thousand
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dollars is meaningful legislation
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that would make uh a vast difference for
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tens of millions of people in the
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country and so
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the senate republicans are now caught
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between
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their rhetoric of you know right-wing
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austerity for the wealthiest people
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uh in the country to rule over everybody
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else and then
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their cultish impulse to follow whatever
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donald trump tells them to do it will be
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fascinating to see
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where they go but meantime what hangs in
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the balance is uh the fortunes of
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millions and millions of people in the
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country
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who are waiting to see whether they're
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going to get this meaningful infusion
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so are you willing to make a prediction
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on what's going to happen in the senate
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here well uh
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the word among republicans at least the
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ones who are willing to talk to
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democrats yesterday
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uh was that mcconnell wants to use this
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moment
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to declare his independence from uh
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donald trump
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to say he's been re-elected for another
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six years donald trump is on his way out
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and this might be their moment to uh
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you know to remove the republican party
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from the direct
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authoritarian control of donald trump
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we'll see whether or not that happens
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he's obviously threatening people
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and claiming credit for people's
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elections but
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so far they've walked the plank with
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donald trump for the last four years and
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that's why
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this really is a moment of reckoning for
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their party
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i mean this this moment this moment when
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millions upon millions of americans were
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struggling not the moment when it was
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appropriate to declare joe biden the
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president-elect
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when you had a free and fair election
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when joe biden had won the election yet
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mitch mcconnell not stepping out
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and separating himself from the
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president and declaring joe biden the
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president like
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wanting to use this moment uh with
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americans that are struggling that
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cannot pay their rent that cannot put
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food on the table you know so i was
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scratching my head thinking
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why is it they can't get on board with
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this thing i know how republicans feel
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about
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uh the voting debt right but the wall
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street journal editorial board
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essentially summed it up for me
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and i want to read for you well let me
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let me just read for you a a quote from
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the wall street journal editorial board
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they said this never
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mind that the 2000 would go to tens of
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millions of americans who have kept
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their jobs and maintain their incomes
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during the pandemic
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it would also add some 350 billion or
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more to a federal deficit that is
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already into the trillions of dollars
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the economy won't benefit
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since the recipients aren't going to
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change their behavior knowing it's
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merely a one-time check i mean
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this doesn't make any sense giving fifty
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two hundred dollars to a family of four
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would actually help the economy and
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encourage them to then spend imagine
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for a moment had they gotten this money
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before the christmas holiday
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do you think they'd be out spending
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especially for those that are actually
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still
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employed it doesn't mean just because
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you have a job
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you have job security in an uncertain
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economy
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look they care about deaths and deficit
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only when the spending would help the
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vast majority of working people in the
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country
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but when it's about giveaways to the
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wealthiest people in the country and the
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wealthiest corporations
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they never utter a peep about debts and
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deficits and we've seen
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giveaways of a trillion and a half
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dollars in their terrible tax plan we
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saw it in 160 billion dollars
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in the last round of federal aid that
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they tucked in
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all of these uh tax giveaways to the
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wealthiest people
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so it's only when you start talking
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about investing
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in the majority of the working people
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that uh they begin
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their tired old rhetoric about deficits
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and debt and so on
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they don't really care about it and
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that's been established by the trump
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administration
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