{"id":27756,"date":"2017-05-26T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27756"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:46:25","slug":"bernie-blasts-mulvaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/26\/bernie-blasts-mulvaney\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Blasts Mulvaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You don&#8217;t need me to tell you how bad Trump&#8217;s Republican budget is.&#160; You don&#8217;t need me to tell you that it is Lyin&#8217; Ryan&#8217;s economic thermonuclear strike against the poor and middle classes.&#160; He has been drooling for this opportunity for years.&#160; However we all need to know how to dissect and oppose it.&#160; At that, few, if any, are better than Bernie Sanders.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bernie-Sanders-2017.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan in a scathing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/24\/opinions\/trump-budget-is-immoral-sanders-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-budget-cuts.html\" target=\"_blank\">$4.1 trillion<\/a>] budget introduced this week by the Trump administration constitutes nothing less than a massive transfer of wealth from working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor to the top 1%,&quot; Sanders wrote Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Vermont senator confronted Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on the budget&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/334768-here-are-the-66-programs-eliminated-in-trumps-budget\" target=\"_blank\">$26.7 billion cuts<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/bernie-sanders-gives-budget-director-mick-mulvaney-epic-lesson-american-inequality\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Lxmd4t9qWy0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is more extensive video clip than the one included.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/z9sqOm8b4fo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This must not pass, but it must be hung around the neck of every Republican running for reelection.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need me to tell you how bad Trump&#8217;s Republican budget is.&#160; You don&#8217;t need me to tell you that it is Lyin&#8217; Ryan&#8217;s economic thermonuclear strike against the poor and middle classes.&#160; He has been drooling for this opportunity for years.&#160; However we all need to know how to dissect and oppose it.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/26\/bernie-blasts-mulvaney\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}