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Elizabeth Warren: “If Dennis home health aides are gone, then Dennis is off in…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

Massachusetts Leaders Rally Against Proposed Medicaid Cuts

Published May 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 49:59

But the way we make that happen is we make it happen through these federal supports that we keep in place. If Dennis home health aides are gone, then Dennis is off in a nursing home. And we have traded something that is barely working for something that is just not going to work. And that echoes through our whole commonwealth. And that's just some of it. (49:59–50:06)

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Asserts that the absence of home health aides would force individuals like Dennis into nursing homes.

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“The House of Representatives passed Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill.”
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