Chris Murphy: Travel Ban ‘Distracts’ from Big Beautiful ‘Stealing’ from the American Public

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MURPHY: "It’s so important we talk about this, because this is the whole game, is that the actual agenda here is to steal from us. The actual agenda is to steal from regular Americans in order to pad the pockets of the rich. So, what does this bill do? It actually costs money for 40% of the American public. You get poorer if you were in the bottom 40%, and the richest families get a tax cut of $270,000, okay? Nobody wants that. That’s super unpopular. So how do you get that done? You distract people by making them think that they’re at war with other Americans, making them think that they have something to fear from people who look different from them or speak a different language. This is what demagogues have done all throughout time, is to divide us from each other, make us feel like we need to be fighting ourselves, while on the side they’re stealing from us, either through legislation like we’re debating in the Senate today, or old-fashioned thievery, as has also been happening in this administration as well. So, yeah, understand that this is important, you know, anytime you ban people coming to the United States from other countries, it has a real impact, but it is chiefly in service of trying to get us all talking about that or talking about the Biden investigation they launched today, instead of talking about the centerpiece of this story, which is this bill to make the rich even richer at the expense of everybody else."