버니 샌더스: Trump ‘happens to be right’ on raising stimulus payment
이것의. Bernie Sanders joins ‘Special Report’ to discuss debating coronavirus relief in the Senate.
트럼프 대통령 is pressing the Senate to increase 코로나 바이러스 stimulus payments to $ 2,000 과 이것의. 버니 샌더스, addressed on Fox News’ “Special Report” how he and the president are finally seeing eye-to-eye.
“President Trump is the most dangerous president in the history of our country,” 그는 말했다. “But he happens to be right on this issue.”
샌더스, I-Vt., admitted Trump was right in stating the severity of the country’s economic downturn and agreed that the American people need help to survive the ongoing pandemic. He stressed the situation requires “bold action” to support the millions of Americans in trouble.
“We fought very hard to get the $ 600 direct payment,” Sanders said. “Trump is right in saying that’s not enough. I didn’t say he was a visionary. He’s right on this issue.”
The Vermont senator said he’s helped lead the movement for direct relief payments, 그러나 $ 600 이다 “not going to do it,” 예를 들면, for mothers who are worrying about feeding their children. 그 동안에, 그는 말했다, senators voting against the increase are more worried about the deficit.
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“I always find it amusing that, sometimes, the very same people who voted for a $ 1.5 trillion tax break for the 1% of large corporations, they didn’t have a worry about the deficit at that point,” 그는 말했다. “Deficit is an issue, 나는 동의한다. But I think at this moment we’ve got to do the right thing for working families.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stalled on making a decision regarding the increase leaving funding in limbo, and Sanders asked, “What is McConnell’s problem?”
“All that I am asking of Mitch McConnell: Give us a vote,” 그는 말했다. “What is the problem with having a vote?”
