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Josh Shapiro: “They're taking billions of dollars away from Pennsylvania…”

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Governor Josh Shapiro Announces Pennsylvania's Participation in Interstate Healthcare Licensure Compacts at Wellspan Health

Published | Video Starts at 31:05

And so the cuts that are about to come are coming as a direct result of how your federal representatives voted here. We can't fix this. For They're taking billions of dollars away from Pennsylvania and we can't make up for that. And so this is our sad new reality, that the federal government of the United States believes in knocking millions of people off of Medicaid, millions of people off of food assistance all pay for a tax Cut for those at the highest income brackets. (31:05–31:11)

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Asserts that federal actions are removing billions of dollars from Pennsylvania's budget.

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