UPDATED: Sanders slams GOP tax plan as 'really bad policy'
Source: The Hill
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 10/01/17 09:57 AM EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday blasted President Trump's tax proposal, calling it "really bad policy."
"This is not a tax break for the rich? Well I don't know what a tax break for the rich is," Sanders said during an interview on ABC's "This Week."
"What this is is a massive transfer of wealth." Sanders said he hopes Democrats will fight the Republican proposal. "This is not politics," he said.
"This is just really bad policy and I'm not clear why anybody would support a proposal which is massive amounts of tax breaks to the people who don't need it."
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/353307-sanders-on-tax-plan-this-isnt-politics-its-just-really-bad-policy
UPDATE:
Sanders: Trump's Puerto Rico rhetoric 'unspeakable'
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 10/01/17 09:50 AM EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that President Trump’s rhetoric about Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria is “unspeakable.”
“It is unspeakable and I don’t know what world Trump is living in. People in Puerto Rico are suffering one of the one disasters in the history of that island,” Sanders told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Sanders’s comments come after Trump on Saturday criticized San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz for “poor leadership,” and urged the island’s citizens not to “believe the fake news.”
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Sanders in the interview on Sunday said people “have a right to be suspect” that race may be a factor in how Trump has handled the United States territory, which has been devastated by storms this hurricane season.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/353306-sanders-trumps-puerto-rico-rhetoric-unspeakable
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