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Democratic Lawmaker Goes Off On GOP Over Bill She Says Would Give Trump Power To Gut SSDI

Published | Video Starts at 02:02

Just last year, the Trump administration wanted to enact one of the biggest cuts to disability benefits ever by changing the rules for disability claims. This change could have resulted in hundreds of thousands of older severely disabled people being denied benefits. And after we spoke up, they backed down from this disastrous plan. And now our Republican colleagues want to grant the Trump administration the very demonstration authority to gut SSDI that President Trump has been begging for. (02:02–02:09)

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