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Edward Markey: “All that money could have gone to Medicaid. All that money…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 11:33

They wanted ultimately in order, yes, to continue this whole crusade of making America great again by making America hating. But they need the ICE agents for the election suppression plan, which they are clearly putting in to place. All that money could have gone to Medicaid. All that money could have gone to doubling the NIH budget. That's not their concern. Their concern. It was animated, let's be honest. It was animated by the SAVE act that they were trying to pass to suppress the votes of minorities, of kids, of married women, because it's to save their asses out. (11:33–11:40)

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