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Hakeem Jeffries: “Republicans could provide massive tax breaks that they made…”

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

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Leader Jeffries on NPR's Morning Edition with Michel Martin

Published | Video Starts at 05:01

Hospitals, nursing homes and community based health clinics are about to close across the country. And we're already seeing that happen in some states. And all of this was done so that Republicans could provide massive tax breaks that they made permanent for their billionaire donors. If billionaires can be provided tax breaks on a permanent basis in ways that will explode the deficit all across the country and result in people losing their health insurance because in part, it was paid for by a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid. (05:01–05:09)

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Asserts that Republicans made permanent tax breaks for billionaire donors.

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