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Hakeem Jeffries: “They [Republicans] enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in…”

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

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Leader Jeffries on CNN's The Situation Room

Published | Video Starts at 02:20

Well, House Democrats are going to continue to fight to address our broken health care system and deal with the Republican health care crisis. Understand these people are destroying the health care of the American people in real time. They [Republicans] 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. (02:20–08:29)

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