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  1. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Democrats are working to lower your health care costs and prescription drug prices. Republicans trying to take health care from millions of Americans AGAIN. It's not hard to see who’s working , and who’s... not.

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  2. 10 hours ago

    After giving the wealthiest Americans massive tax cuts, “Mr. McConnell has shown just who he wants to foot the bill: the elderly, the poor, and the sick.”

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  3. 11 hours ago

    No surprise here: “The deficit is rising, so Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare”

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Republicans are talking out of both sides of their mouths. They claim they want to keep protections for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, but they also support a lawsuit that seeks to undo those exact safeguards. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  5. 14 hours ago

    “A simple analysis of what Treasury reported shows that virtually the entire deficit increase was because the tax cut enacted in December reduced revenues substantially.”

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  6. 15 hours ago

    Republicans refuse to take responsibility for their failed tax policy. Instead, they want to cut the Social Security and Medicare benefits you’ve paid into and earned throughout your life.

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  7. Oct 17

    This is yet another example of President Trump making empty promises based on fantasy, not facts. The Republican tax cuts aren’t reducing the deficit, they’re doing the exact opposite.

    2 replies 8 retweets 11 likes
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  8. Oct 17

    Republicans promised that their tax law would pay for itself. It doesn’t.

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  9. Oct 17

    Last year, we predicted that Republicans would do this. It was their plan all along to give unsustainable tax cuts to the rich and then use the massive deficit that policy caused as an excuse to slash Medicare and Social Security.

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  10. Oct 17

    Republicans claimed that their tax law was written to benefit the middle class. Turns out, it doesn’t.

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  11. Oct 17

    Fact check: Republican proposals to protect people with pre-existing conditions don’t hold water. In reality, the GOP is actively trying to dismantle the effective safeguards that are already in place.

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    Oct 17

    DON'T pay for themselves. The is causing the largest deficit in six years. Republicans are using the growing deficit to make big cuts to , , and .

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  13. Oct 17

    “There are several ways to ask the question, ‘Are tax cuts paying for themselves?’ Based on the data we have right now, they all arrive at the same answer: ‘No.’”

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  14. Oct 16

    On the campaign trail, Donald Trump declared that he is “the king of debt.” As President, he’s living up to that title, and the American people are on the hook for his financial recklessness.

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  15. Oct 16

    “Republican efforts to make it harder for low-income Americans to qualify for government social programs could jeopardize the food supply of more than 4 million children and seniors, and potentially leave 22 million people without health insurance”

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  16. Retweeted
    Oct 16

    The deficit grew $110 billion because of the GOP tax cut bill that gave a break to big corporations and the richest 1%. Unlike the President’s promise that these cuts would pay for themselves, our debt is only growing as a result. More from

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  17. Oct 16

    Choosing Mary Mayhew to oversee Medicaid is like hiring an arsonist to be a city’s fire chief.

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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 16

    The party of so called fiscal responsibility has recklessly inflated the deficit. Now the Majority Leader is calling for "entitlement" reform. The only entitlement here is the major tax breaks for the rich in the GOP tax bill.

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  19. Retweeted
    Oct 16

    The CBO warned Congress that the would increase debt and deficits, yet rammed the bill through passage anyway. Now they want to pay for their giveaways to the rich by cutting programs like Social Security and Medicare.

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  20. Oct 16

    “…now that the deficit is spiraling, those same Republicans who pretended to care about ‘fiscal responsibility’ have decided that what the nation really needs is more tax breaks – none of which will be paid for – and cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”

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