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Hakeem Jeffries: “The Republicans have enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 21:35

Interviews. Where exactly do you feel they're getting it wrong with those descriptions? I was going to defer to our hometown congressmember, but I'll yield to him momentarily. You know, The Republicans have enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. They're not interested in going after waste, fraud and abuse. Because if they actually wanted to target waste, fraud and abuse, there's one place that they could start in the United States of America. (21:35–21:41)

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Asserts that Republicans have made the largest cut to Medicaid in U.S. history.

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