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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “A trillion dollars eviscerated from people's health care…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Published | Video Starts at 01:04

I mean, Chris, we're here to help people. We are here in the midst of this destruction of the federal government, the federal safety net, A trillion dollars eviscerated from people's health care, their Medicare, their Medicaid in this country. with prices that are skyrocketing and life becoming completely untenable for the American people. We are here to try to be a backstop and to be that backstop, which is what the American people have elected us to do. (01:04–01:12)

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Asserts that $1 trillion has been cut from health care, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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