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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 ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

We need to deal with that. We need to fix our broken health care system, particularly in the midst of the assault that Republicans have launched in their one big ugly bill. They [Republicans] enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, ripping health care away from millions of people. And in that same bill gave the Department of Homeland Security $191 billion, including 75 billion that went to ICE, so that taxpayer dollars could be used to brutalize the American people. (01:09–07:44)

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Asserts that Republicans enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, affecting millions.

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