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Gwen Moore: “They [Republicans] have been pressured in particular by…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Interview with Congresswoman Gwen Moore on Trump's Tax and Medicaid Legislation

Published | Video Starts at 02:54

Elon Musk has said that he will finance primaries against any Republicans that defies Donald Trump. And we literally have Republicans behind closed doors. So many of them are saying that they don't want to see these cuts. They [Republicans] have been pressured in particular by their constituents, particularly on Medicaid. We had people in wheelchairs outside of the Energy and Commerce Committee in wheelchairs being arrested putting, as John Lewis would say, the late great putting their bodies on the line to stop these cuts because there is in such dire need of them. (02:54–14:16)

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Asserts that Republican constituents are pressuring them against Medicaid cuts.

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