Sanders: Trump budget is ‘morally obscene’

Published March 16, 2017 2:07pm ET



Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose pro-workers rights and anti-trade presidential campaign message had crossover appeal to President Trump’s supporters, has labeled the president’s “America First” budget “morally obscene.”

“President Trump’s budget is morally obscene and bad economic policy,” the Vermont independent said in a statement Thursday. “It will cause devastating pain to the very people Trump promised to help during the campaign.”

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