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John Hickenlooper: “He's going to have to cut $880 billion from the budget. That…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Virtual Town Hall with Senator Hickenlooper and Janine Davidson on National Issues

Published | Video Starts at 26:28

And again, I'm all favor, I'm in favor of maintaining the tax cuts that we have in place for working people, people making less than 400 grand. But there's no reason to put out such enormous tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. And He's going to have to cut $880 billion from the budget. That means coming after Medicaid. he's going to balloon our deficit to $4 trillion. That doesn't sound like it's efficiency to me, but it doesn't seem to bother anyone over there. (26:28–26:34)

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Asserts that $880 billion in budget cuts will target Medicaid.

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