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Chuck Schumer: “CBO found that thanks to Donald Trump's big ugly bill, the…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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We didn't gain them. Trump also failed to speak about his plan to fix health care because he has none. Donald Trump claims he will always protect Medicare, but that's false. CBO found that thanks to Donald Trump's big ugly bill, the Medicare trust fund will run out 12 years sooner than before. In other words, Donald Trump has accelerated Medicare's demise by more than a decade with one single bill, which every Republican voted for in this chamber, but no Democrat, because we knew the damage to health care he was doing. (05:32–05:41)

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Asserts that a bill supported by Trump will deplete the Medicare trust fund 12 years earlier.

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