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Jasmine Crockett: “This was the largest transfer of wealth from working class…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 03:53

So the reconciliation package that was passed, unfortunately, I don't think we spent enough time talking about the really bad impacts of that. We talked about Medicaid and Medicare. They cut about $1 trillion out of health care. And so This was the largest transfer of wealth from working class and poor folk up to rich folk that we've ever seen in the history of this country. They decided that they needed to cut their access to health care so that they could then go ahead and pocket more dollars in tax cuts. (03:53–04:01)

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Asserts that the reconciliation package resulted in the largest wealth transfer from poor to rich in U.S. history.

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