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Lori Trahan: “That fund is a bandaid on a gaping bleeding wound, right? It…”

Featuring: Lori Trahan, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 3rd Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 30:08

$50 billion, as though that's going to, you know, fix things. And they like to point to it as proof that they're trying to fix the very crisis that they created. But That fund is a bandaid on a gaping bleeding wound, right? It doesn't even come close to making up for the damage. that they caused when they decimated Medicaid. And it's woefully underfunded. And so JD Vance has the gall to stand there and act like this is the thing that they're protecting. (30:08–30:17)

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Asserts that the $50 billion fund is insufficient to address the damage caused.

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