Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Interview with Rep. Seth Moulton (D- MA)

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Look, I mean, I think you're right, (Anderson), that there's certainly a risk, but the speaker has already agreed to 72 hours to review the bill in detail, and of course, what he really has to do is sell it to the extremists in his caucus.

Remember, he counted on the votes of people like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, some of the most extreme politicians America has ever seen in order to get elected speaker. Those are the types of people that he's going to sell this deal to, and he may need some extra days to do it.

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John, look, it depends on what's really at stake here. There are a lot of studies out there that show the work requirements just put onerous burdens on people and don't actually do what the Republicans say they will do.

And let's look at these numbers, John, $1 billion, would be saved with work requirements. If the Republicans do what they intend to do and reinstate the Trump tax cuts or extend the Trump tax cuts, we are talking about adding $3.5 trillion to the deficit. So that's $1.00 saved versus $3,500.00 saved if the Republicans would stop with these Trump tax cuts that just went to the wealthy and the biggest corporations in the world.

So they're not being honest here. They're not even looking at the facts or the math. We need to do a lot better.

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I mean, look, the president has got a lot of loyalty in his party, I'm always going to vote on what I think is right. That's my principle, but there are an awful lot of Democrats who are just going to do whatever the president says and that may be enough to get it across the finish line.

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Look, my message to Senator Tuberville is we need to move the military to move faster. General Brown famously said a few years ago that we need to either modernize more quickly or we will lose. We need to move faster we need to modernize.

Senator Tuberville, this 68-year-old White man from Alabama wants to take us backwards. Take us back to the 1950s. there are 80,000 women who serve in the military. They don't get to choose where they get stationed and they don't need some 68-year-old White guy from Alabama telling them what to do with their bodies and what health care decisions they need to make.

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Good to see you, John.

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