Ayanna Pressley: “Republicans are doing everything in their power to make…”

“Mr. Speaker, the wealth of our nation is the health of our people. And yet Republicans are doing everything in their power to make families sicker. They want to deny children food, ban abortion care, and obstruct the extension of the Affordable Care act subsidies. This is dire for folks in my district where in a 3 mile radius, life expectancy drops by 30 years.” (00:04–00:08)

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