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Chuck Schumer: “The American people are getting higher health care premiums…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:30

This would all be perhaps a little more amusing if it wasn't so insulting to the American people. Because while Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries get their private jets, The American people are getting higher health care premiums, higher grocery costs, a worsening job market. Let me just show this chart, a list of awful headlines about the economy just from last week OR so from NBC. U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far. (07:30–07:37)

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Asserts that Americans face higher health care premiums, grocery costs, and a worsening job market.

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