Warren Slams Republicans’ Big, Beautiful Reconciliation Bill: ‘They Value The Billionaires'

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During Wednesday's press briefing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke about the reconciliation bill, which ultimately passed early Thursday morning.  … 

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hello

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we're here we're here because budgets

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are a statement of values

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you want to know what a country truly

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values then look at their budget and the

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Republicans are telling us who they

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value they value the billionaires they

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value the billionaires over our babies

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they value the bill billionaires over

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our seniors they value the billionaires

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over everyone else and that's what that

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budget reflects so we are here

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today to say as Democrats to say as

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independents to say as

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Americans we are here to say that no

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baby should go hungry so that Mark

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Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian

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island

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[Applause]

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we are here to say that no person with a

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significant disability who needs a home

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health aid so they can live

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independently should have to give that

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up so that Jeff Bezos can buy a third

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yacht

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we are here to

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say that no one in America should go

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without healthc care so that Elon Musk

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can take a rocket ship ride to Mars

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i want to say a big thank you to all of

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you for being here and an extra big

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thank you to every single Democrat who

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stayed up all night in this fight

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because they remind us and you remind

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the rest of America this fight is not

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over

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[Applause]

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in fact this fight is just beginning

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now is the moment now while the votes

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are going on while the negotiations are

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underway now is the moment for everyone

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to make those calls to their reps to

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text their reps to email those reps and

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for all of you who say "Ar already did

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that." I say "Great do it

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again." And then again and then again

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because it is time now to raise your

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voice raise your voice for every baby

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who doesn't want to be hungry raise your

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voice for every senior who doesn't want

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to be kicked out of a nursing home

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raise your voice for every American who

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still wants access to their health care

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and raise your voice to say to every

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billionaire you can damn well pay your

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fair share

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[Music]

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make those calls send those texts keep

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it up we are in this fight and never

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forget we didn't have the majority last

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time when they tried to pull this trick

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and we don't have it now last time we

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beat him we can do it again let's do

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this thank you thank you all

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thank you so