At a rally, Pete Buttigieg stated that candidates are voting for Donald Trump's trillion-dollar tax breaks for billionaires and corporations, which are also linked to cutting food stamps and Medicaid benefits. He added that tariffs and the war cost American families thousands of dollars.
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- Who
- Pete Buttigieg
- Where
- rally
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- CNN · watch the full video from this moment
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- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
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candidates to the alternative. Rob Whitman, Jen Kegans, and John McGuire are voting for Donald Trump's trillion dollar tax breaks for billionaires in the biggest corporations in the country, while kicking a hundred thousand Virginians off of food stamps. We can see 300 Virginians kicked off Medicaid. And let's be clear, they knew exactly what they were doing when they timed the worst of the Medicaid cuts and the food cuts to happen just after the election. They voted again and again to back Trump's tariffs, to have a typical family paying more than $1 ,000 more per household. And this Iran war that on average has American families paying $2 ,000 more. Well, let's do some quick math. You've got 1 ,000 more for the tariffs, 2 ,000 more for the war. A lot of people paying hundreds if not thousands more for health care.
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