Name: Sen. Bernie Sanders slams Republican senators over $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill | ABC News
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:33:30.000Z
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and now I find that some of my Republican colleagues are very distressed.

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They're very upset, but somebody was making 10 12 bucks an hour.

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Might end up with a paycheck for four months more than they receive last week.

Imagine that somebody was making 12 bucks an hour.

Now, like the rest of us faces an unprecedented economic crisis.

With the 600 bucks on top of their normal, their regular unemployment check might be making a few bucks Maur for four months.

Meanwhile, these very same folks had no problem a couple of years ago voting for a trillion dollars in tax breaks for billionaires and large, profitable corporations.

But when it comes to low income workers in the midst of a terrible crisis, maybe some of them earning we're having more money than they previously made.

I just got told those poor people that no matter what Oh, by the way, when this bill, when the McConnell bill first came up unbelievably.

And I know many Republicans objected to this.

They were saying that while we want to give a whatever it was 1000 1200 bucks.

You see, because poor people are down here.

They don't go to the doctor there somehow inferior.

Some of my Republican friends still have not given up on the need to punish the poor and working people.

You haven't raised the minimum wage in 10 years.

Minimal wage should be at least 15 bucks an hour.

You've cut program after program after program and now horror of horrors for four months, workers might be earning a few bucks more than they otherwise went.

Well, needless to say, this is an amendment that is coming up.

I will introduce an amendment to deal with the corporate wealth of the $500 billion in corporate welfare which is to me a very serious problem.

 But I do not think they're going to get the 60 votes and that will be the end of it. 

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