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Diana DeGette: “You can't get to that number [$880 billion] without cutting…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Congresswoman Diana DeGette Discusses Impact of HHS Layoffs and Medicaid Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 18:13

So also, if you make these adjustments to the states, even if you added a work requirement, which most experts say won't work, you still don't get up to $880 billion in saving. You can't get to that number [$880 billion] without cutting large swaths of recipients off of Medicaid, period. So I want to know what tools do you have to kind of halt the actions that have been happening, like the cuts at the agencies. (18:13–18:20)

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Asserts that achieving $880 billion in savings requires cutting many Medicaid recipients.

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