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Gwen Moore: “You need to build the political will among Americans to…”

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

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From Welfare to U.S. Congress Rep. Gwen Moore's Fight for the 'Rise Out of Poverty Act'

Published | Video Starts at 08:45

And yet, to send that message, or to send the message that we need to make these lazy people who are on food stamps get a job, you. Gotta dehumanize people who you would like to disappear. You need to build the political will among Americans to allow people to go hungry so that you can take a trillion dollars out of Medicaid. so you can take billions of dollars out of food stamps, these entitlement programs. What do you make of what's going on now? Because I'm not hearing the Democratic Party screaming about this. (08:45–08:58)

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Asserts that political will is needed to cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid.

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