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Raphael Warnock: “One of our biggest accomplishments was allowing Medicare to…”

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Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress

Published December 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 25:45

I knew this as an activist pastor. Now as a member of the Senate, I know it more than ever. I've seen it up close. When I first got to the Senate, One of our biggest accomplishments was allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices for the first time. I want you to think about that. The fact that we had to fight, that we had to pass a law in a capitalist society to get the power to … (25:45–25:52)

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Asserts that allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices was a significant Senate accomplishment.

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“President Trump is able to take health care away from 15 million Americans and double the health care premiums of some 22 million Americans.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 16:19-16:30
“Insulin is a 100-year-old drug. The patent was sold for $1. Shouldn't be expensive in the first place.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 27:50-27:57
“They cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid, which means they put 15 million people off of their health care.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 39:33-39:36
“They're now doubling the premiums for 22 million people, doubling them on average.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 39:39-39:46
“The median age for people buying their first home is 40.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 46:57-47:01
“We can build a future where each generation does a little bit better than their parents.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 05:24-05:33
“This [Medicaid cut] disproportionately impacts people in red districts.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 05:43-39:23
“We honestly feel that [the American dream] slipping away.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 05:48-05:53
“People on the left and the right, Democrats, Republicans, independents... all feel it.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 05:59-05:59
“The stakes could not be higher because the question is whether we can build together a future worthy of our children.”
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“I was able to earn that degree and three others after it because of Pell grants, low interest, student loans, and working a job on the side.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 08:51-09:04
“Upward Bound, another federal program, part of Trio, put a kid in the projects on a college campus during the summer and on Saturdays for…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 09:24-09:38
“Over the last 50 years, real wages for working families have been stagnant.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 12:29-12:34
“Today, the price of everything from health care to housing to energy bills to Childcare is becoming more, more expensive.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 12:35-12:44
“We are witnessing the largest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 16:51-16:57
“We see armed and mass federal agents and members of the military patrolling the streets of American cities, repelling down apartment…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 17:08-17:21
“I've delivered aid to people who work every day but still can't pay the rent because the housing is unaffordable.”
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“Politicians in both parties have failed to center the people and the cycle of despair has led us further and further into the spiritual…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 19:41-19:57
“Many corporations are raking in record profits year after year. But many workers haven't seen real wage growth in decades.”
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“The President is using all the levers of government to benefit powerful corporations and his well connected friends.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 23:03-23:11
“We started with only 10 negotiated drugs in 2022, and those savings do not go into effect until 2026.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 26:28-26:41
“I'm proud of my work to cap the cost of insulin to $35.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 28:04-28:09
“The health care system is dangerously unaffordable and leaves too many families deep in medical debt.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 28:11-28:26
“Big pharma and rich insurance companies have had a veto over health care policy in this country.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 28:12-28:18
“Some states are already finding ways to make life-saving drugs affordable.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 28:52-28:58
“People desperately need inhalers, generics for EpiPens, cholesterol drugs, but find them too expensive to afford.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 29:02-29:11
“We can ensure everyone feels a sense of ownership [through building homes].”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 30:47-30:59
“The federal government has built homes before, it could put shovels in the ground again.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 31:07-31:15
“Building and selling homes directly to Americans at a lower cost increases the housing supply.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 31:14-31:27
“Increasing the housing supply does more than make monthly mortgage payments more affordable.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 31:20-31:27
“More supplies means lower rent for renters too.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 31:26-31:30
“Investing in technical apprenticeships for our children would solve our catastrophic housing shortage.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 31:48-31:53
“Public policy is a letter we write to our children about the kind of nation we want to be.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 32:18-32:27
“Public policy is a matter of life and death.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 38:21-38:25
“People are going to die because of the decisions that politicians are making in real time.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 38:37-38:46
“A piece of legislation... would knock another million people off of health care.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 40:03-40:09
“The housing issue is a major issue in our country right now, and we're not going to drive the price of housing down without creating more…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 46:21-46:30
“Either the federal government has to use its weight and its power to get local communities and municipalities to think differently and…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 47:02-47:31
“The government has to get in that space, not as an exclusive agent, but as a player to try to impact the overall ecosystem.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 47:33-47:35
“Georgians are not looking to the president to give them advice on Christmas shopping. They need somebody who's going to solve the…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 49:59-50:13
“All you got to do is go to your local grocery store. All you got to do is look at your utility bills. All of that is going up.”
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“We passed a housing proposal out of that committee unanimously with Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren as the chair and the ranking member, and…”
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“I'm very focused on workforce development. I've got a bill, a bipartisan bill focused on smoothing the pathway for young people out of…”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 52:43-52:59
“Aviation space is, does not suffer from diversity, contrary to what the president said.”
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“We are right now in a race to the bottom on gerrymandering.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 58:45-58:55
“We have very few competitive congressional districts in our country, and I think that's bad for democracy.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 59:54-1:00:05
“These are things we were trying to address in the voting bills that I was trying to move forward.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 1:00:26-1:00:31
“I am deeply grateful that I get to represent the 11 million people of Georgia.”
Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress | Uploaded December 11, 2025 | 1:03:40-1:03:46