After the back and forth we saw the past 30 hours, those backroom deals, sweetheart negotiations, we found out that Senate Democrats successfully fought a provision that the Senate Republicans were trying to get, were using to try and get Senator Murkowski's vote. The Medicaid provision in question was a handwritten parenthetical notation not even disclosed to the Dems that created a special new preference for Alaska. We fought and we won. This is a polar payoff and it should not have stood and it didn't. (00:48–00:59)
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Asserts that a Medicaid provision favoring Alaska was not disclosed to Democrats.
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