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Pat Kreitlow: “Their hook, if you will, is that all of these cuts that…”

Featuring: Pat Kreitlow, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Rep. Mark Pocan Exposes $17K Healthcare Premium Hikes Coming for Wisconsin Families

Published | Video Starts at 08:10

And I'm going around doing truth telling on it. Congressman Mark Pocan is our guest talking about the government shutdown. And again, Their hook, if you will, is that all of these cuts that they've made are all about making sure that, that health care benefits can't go to undocumented immigrants. And they use, I mean, just blatantly, you know, racist lines about, you know, if you're, if you're an American citizen waiting for, you know, the ER and there's some immigrant there who's going to get their health care first, blah, blah, blah. (08:10–08:21)

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Asserts that the cuts are aimed at preventing health care benefits from going to undocumented immigrants.

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