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And incredibly remarkable thing happened this
week. And it's remarkable for several reasons.
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What happened was that Republicans told Donald
Trump, no, we're not going to include this
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payroll tax cut that you've been pushing since
the beginning of the year in the next round
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of coronavirus relief. This is remarkable.
For two reasons, one Republicans finally stood
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up to Trump. He said, do the thing. And they
said, no, we're not going to do the thing.
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And the second reason this is remarkable is
because the Republicans actually found a tax
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cut that they were willing to say, no, thank
you. We've we've had enough. We, we don't
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need another one right now. That's crazy.
Here's what happened. Obviously, as I mentioned,
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Donald Trump has been pushing this payroll
tax cut. Since even before the pandemic, he
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has been really hammering it during the pandemic
as a way to boost the economy. When in fact
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it does nothing, uh, it puts a lot of money
in the pockets of corporations and businesses
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puts a little bit of money in the pockets
of the working class. It puts no money in
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the pockets of people who are unemployed or
without work otherwise. And uh, Oh also it
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opens the door for Republicans to be able
to cut social security.
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That's one of the reasons why Republicans
have been okay with it in the past, but for
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some reason, right now they've looked at this
and they have said he had it. We'll put money
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in our donors pockets. It lets us fulfill
our wish of cutting social security. But I'm
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sorry, Donald. We're just not gonna do it
right now. Why? Because unlike Donald Trump,
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every other Republican sitting in that Senate
right there knows how to be a politician.
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They know how to play the game. They know
how to put things off. And you know, for six
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months, because you got an election around
the corner and you can't do something to cut
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social security, a hugely popular program
in the United States, three and a half months
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before a very contentious election where you're
already likely to lose. You can't do anything
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to ensure that you do lose.
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You. Can't cut taxes for corporations at a
time of growing income inequality. When elections
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are right around the corner. Now come end
of November, December hell. Yeah. Expect to
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see them push this payroll tax cut faster
than anything we've ever seen. They're going
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to do it. They just know that politically
they can't do it right now. Right now, they
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got to put money in working people's pockets.
And that's why we're likely to get another
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round of $1,200 checks. Trump doesn't care.
Trump wants this thing done, but what's interesting
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is the framing of the media. Now this was
100% Republicans standing up Trump and saying,
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no, we can't do it. Now. Chuck Grassley was
one of the people who said, no, this makes
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no sense right now. It's not going to do us
any good. It's going to actually probably
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hurt us. And here's the headline Fox news
ran about this story. Trump says, he told
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Republicans dims. Wouldn't allow payroll tax
cut. We have to go onto the next thing. So
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Fox news on their website actually framed
it as Donald Trump telling Republicans like,
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Hey Dems, aren't gonna let us do this guys.
So we got to move on.
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It's not even close to being what the reality
actually is. Republicans told Trump it ain't
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going to happen because it's a bad political
move. Trump did not tell them the Democrats
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aren't going to go with it. So let's just
move on. That's not how Trump works. Anyway.
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Trump has never a, okay, let's move on. Kind
of guy, not to mention the fact that we're
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talking about the Senate, where Democrats
are a minority. So who gives a shit if they
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were going to vote for it or not. Right? You
have the majority, you would have gotten it
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passed in there and ask for the house yet.
The Democrats control that, but they've also
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said nothing's off the table. House Democrats
are actually ready and willing to go along
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with Mitch McConnell's plan to provide immunity
to corporations. If they come down with a
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big outbreak of COVID-19 among their employees,
Democrats have actually said with regards
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to that, we're not taking it off the table.
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So if you think you couldn't have gotten them
to vote for this payroll tax, cut your crazy.
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Just like the Fox news writers who wrote that
headline. But the truth is a payroll tax cut
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is yet another giveaway to the wealthy and
a Trojan horse to be able to cut social security
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because that's what the payroll tax funds.
I'm glad Republicans took it out, but do not
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think for a second that this is a permanent
victory. It is a temporary victory and we
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will see that payroll tax cut come rearing
its ugly head again at the end of November,
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regardless of who won the election.
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