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Peter Welch: “Trump is proposing to take away your health care and the…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senator Welch answers questions from constituents.

Published | Video Starts at 02:39

And so many of our kids in Vermont, they get their health care, of course, through the Medicaid program. So we've got A situation where Trump is proposing to take away your health care and the health care of your parents in order to finance a tax cut for billionaires. It's absolutely unconscionable. And that's why we're fighting so hard in Washington against what I think is an extraordinarily cruel and reckless effort. I'll do all I can to preserve Medicaid. (02:39–02:49)

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Asserts that Trump plans to cut healthcare to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

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