ABC host and former Bill Clinton flack George Stephanopoulos confronted Hillary Clinton about her $1 trillion spending proposal Sunday, a plan that critics have called "grandiose" and a "spending binge."
"[You’ve] proposed about a trillion dollars over ten years in spending proposals. A lot of questions on whether you can actually pay for it by focusing tax increases only on the top 3 percent," Stephanopoulos said.
Stephanopoulos read off part of a scathing Washington Post editorial which condemned Clinton’s dual promises of not raising taxes on people earning less than $250,000 and implementing $1 trillion worth of benefits as "implausible."
"Here’s the Washington Post editorial, they say, "There is simply no way that the federal government can meet its current fiscal commitments, plus the increased demands of an aging population, and provide the new forms of middle-class relief and business tax relief Ms. Clinton promises, while tapping only the top 3 percent of earners," he said.
In response, Clinton said that she has laid out the specifics of how her plan will work.
"Well, I just respectfully disagree," she said. "I’ve laid out very specific plans about the kind of investments that I think middle-class families particularly need, that we have to have, to, you know, grow our economy and I have been very specific about how I will pay for each of those, and that is part of the -- you know, underlying principal of my presenting these."
She then condemned Republicans for "going after" her and criticized their "party philosophy."
"It is a little bit amusing that the Republican National Committee would go after me, since all of their candidates and their party philosophy is massive spending cuts and massive tax decreases for those at the very top, with no thought on how to pay for it or the trillion of dollars it would add to the national debt," she said.