Yep. I don't know what it means to be a fiscal hawk, because if you vote for this bill, you're adding $4 trillion to the debt. I know that Republicans have gone on TV for months and months and months, solemnly insisting to the American people that this bill is going to cut the debt. that this will not hurt anybody on Medicaid. Just those lazy bums and unworthy people. They've given us fantastical growth projections coming. Out of the White House. (09:43–09:52)
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