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Richard Blumenthal: “The ultimate win is to preserve health care, that is to have…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Published | Video Starts at 02:19

… some confusion, which is why I wanted a clarification of the two bills from the beginning. Well, the win here is to avoid families going hungry, and kids particularly. But The ultimate win is to preserve health care, that is to have the health care tax credits extended past the end of the year. when right now they will expire. And for families, on November 21st, by the way. Right. No, the tax credits. The tax credits. Well, look, I think there's two things here. (02:19–02:30)

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Asserts the importance of extending health care tax credits beyond the year's end.

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