May 17 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, delivers an opening statement at a Budget Committee hearing entitled, “The Rich Get Richer, Deficits Get Bigger: How Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations Drive the National Debt,” .
The hearing highlighted how tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations have been the largest driver of deficits over the past two decades.
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