Last Updated Nov 18th, 2019 at 10:05 am

2020 Democrats Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Beto O’Rourke sharply criticized Elizabeth Warren at Tuesday night’s CNN debate for refusing to admit that her “Medicare for All” plan would increase taxes on the American middle class.

Asked by a moderator whether or not her health care proposal would require a tax increase on the middle class, Warren replied:

“Let me be clear on this. Costs will go up for the wealthy. They will go up for big corporations. And for middle-class families, they will go down. I will not sign a bill into law that does not lower costs for middle-class families.”

Saying, “this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general,” Pete Buttigieg replied:

“Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything — except this. No plan has been laid out to explain how a multi-trillion dollar hole in this Medicare for All plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in.”

After Warren responded by stating that Medicare for All is the “way we get health care coverage for every single American,” Bernie Sanders replied, “as someone who wrote the damn bill” that “it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up.”

Klobuchar then addressed Warren, saying:

“At least Bernie’s being honest here and saying how he’s going to pay for this and that taxes are going to go up, and I’m sorry, Elizabeth, but you have not said that. And I’m tired of hearing, whenever I say these things, ‘Oh, it’s Republican talking points’ — you are making Republican talking points right now in this room.”

Beto O’Rourke also pounced on Warren’s plan, saying: