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Ilhan Omar: “We have over $800 billion cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:12:59

And so we are looking under every rock, behind every door, under every cushion to find additional ways to fund education and especially those most vulnerable, like our special ed and our el students. Like I said earlier in the big ugly bill, We have over $800 billion cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and there are about 130 billion dollar cuts to the Department of Education. We also know that discrimination is going to be a problem, especially for special ed students, because the department, the department Civil rights department is basically dismantled. (1:12:59–1:13:12)

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