… that will cause premiums, co pays and deductibles to increase by tens of millions, on tens of millions of people, by thousands of dollars per year. At the same time, Republicans are now threatening to weaponize hunger against the American people and withhold funding for nutritional assistance for children and seniors and veterans and women. This is on top of the fact that in the one big, ugly bill that Republicans passed in July, in addition to a nearly $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, Republicans enacted the largest cut to SNAP in American history, $186 billion cut. (01:30–01:50)
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Asserts that Republicans are threatening to withhold funding for nutritional assistance.
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