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Chris Murphy: “Medicaid covers about a quarter of all Americans in order to…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Senator Chris Murphy Discusses Economic Policies and Biden's Leadership on Meet the Press

Published | Video Starts at 00:44

This budget bill is an absolute disaster. It is going to kick over 10 million people off of their health care. Medicaid covers about a quarter of all Americans in order to pass along a new trillion dollar tax cut for the richest 1%. Nobody in this country is asking for that. And in addition, it's going to dramatically drive up the defic it. I heard the Treasury Secretary say that who cares about the downgrading of our credit rating from Moody's? (00:44–00:53)

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