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Hakeem Jeffries: “In that same one big ugly bill, they ripped food away from…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries Speaks to Press

Published | Video Starts at 17:41

Devastated communities all across America where you have hospitals, nursing homes and community based health centers closing in real time, including in rural parts of the country. In that same one big ugly bill, they ripped food away from hungry children, seniors and veterans and enacted $186 billion cut to SNAP, which also happens to be the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history. And why did the extremists do all of this? So they could pass massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors. And they made those tax breaks permanent. (17:41–17:59)

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Asserts that the bill included a $186 billion cut to SNAP, the largest in U.S. history.

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