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Mark Kelly: “If you were somebody on Medicaid or getting your health care…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Why? Not even close. And how does this help Americans afford their health care? Which, by the way, this president put a big dent in. Right. Really cut. If you were somebody on Medicaid or getting your health care from the Affordable Care act exchange, he wanted to give a big tax cut [to billionaires]. The billionaires. How does this help you, by the way? You know, costs are going to go up, energy prices are going to go up. That's going to affect everything. (05:00–05:07)

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Asserts that the president aimed to give tax cuts to billionaires at the expense of Medicaid and ACA recipients.

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