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Nancy Pelosi: “Half a trillion dollars [is being] taken off [Medicare].”

Featuring: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic | Speaker Emerita, U.S. House California, District 11

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Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi Hold Rally for California Prop 50

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For people to have their health care and not to have the prices increase in Medicare, Medicaid, for people to be pushed off, millions of people pushed off. And again, Medicare, Half a trillion dollars [is being] taken off [Medicare]. And why to give a tax cut to the richest people in America. That's not for goodness sake. And now we came into a weekend, November 1, when people would start losing their SNAP benefits. (01:08–01:10)

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