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And here's a very simple proposition. When workers in Kentucky, Ohio and throughout this country are working two or three jobs to stay alive, when they are working 50, 60 or 70 hours a week to pay the bills, you don't take away their healthcare benefits to give tax breaks to billionaires.

Our job today is to do everything possible to defeat this terrible legislation which will harm so many people. Our job tomorrow is to join every other major country on earth and guarantee health care for all as a right not a privilege through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program.

And our job every day is to fight for a political revolution which demands that we create a vibrant democracy in which government represents all of us, and not just the wealthy and the powerful.

Let me conclude by saying this. A great nation is not judged by the number of billionaires it has, or by the tax breaks they receive. It is judged by its commitment to justice, dignity and equality. It is judged by how we treat the most vulnerable amongst us: the children, the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the poor.

This bill is a moral outrage. It must be defeated.

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