As Senate Republicans hold its fate in their hands, PBS’s Amanpour and Company thought it was a good idea to welcome former Clinton Treasury Secretary and Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summers to double and triple down on his previous claim that Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill will kill over 100,000 people.
Anchor Walter Isaacson reduced himself to simply putting the ball on the tee, “You know, you wrote last week after President Trump signed what he called the Big Beautiful Bill on July 4th, you said, ‘I don't remember any past July 4th being so ashamed of any action my country had taken.’ That was in a New York Times op-ed. What do you mean by that?
Summers decried, “I mean that this was a shocking thing in its brutality. We've had budgets all the time. We've had changes in policy. The United States has never cut back its social safety net nearly as much in any action, not in Ronald Reagan's cuts in 1981, not in the budget—in the welfare reform bill that was passed in the mid-1990s, not in the aftermath of the financial crisis, never have we had as large a cutback in the social safety net measured relative to the size of the economy as we did here.”
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