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.
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Later, alluding to an appearance Summers had on ABC’s This Week, Isaacson again put the ball on the tee, “You just said that the Medicaid cut would cause 100,000 deaths over the next decade, and you said that long ago on a TV show, ‘That's 2,000 days of death like we've seen in Texas this weekend.’ You are referring to the Texas Floods. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said your comments turned a human tragedy into a political cudgel, looked deeply offensive, and he called on you to apologize. What are you saying?”
Summers replied by essentially telling Bessent to shut up, “Secretary Bessent can be offended by whatever he wants to be offended. I think what's callous, what's a political cudgel, is the policies that he and his administration are legislating that will, according to objective experts in both parties, kill people.
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