Hakeem Jeffries: “More than 14 million people are about to lose their health…”

“Understand these people are destroying the health care of the American people in real time. They enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. More than 14 million people are about to lose their health insurance as a result of what Republicans did in their one big ugly bill. Hospitals, nursing homes, community based health centers are closing throughout the country. They're attacking the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Health, making vaccines unavailable.” (08:29–08:37)

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