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Hakeem Jeffries: “Republican appropriations bill wants to cut funding for the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:28

And Donald Trump has broken his promise to lower costs on day one. And by the way, on top of all of that, medical research has been … Republican appropriations bill wants to cut funding for the National Institute of Health by $500 million. … are simply not going to go along to get along the Republican effort to continue to gut the health care of the American people. (03:28–03:44)

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Asserts that the Republican appropriations bill proposes a $500 million cut to NIH funding.

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