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Steve Scalise: “Democrats gut $50 billion out of rural health care.”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 21:09

They've laid out a trillion and a half billion dollar wish list of crazy items like giving taxpayer funded health care to illegals in their bill. To give that taxpayer funding to illegals. They actually gut rural health care. Democrats gut $50 billion out of rural health care. They want to talk about health care. They're the ones making it harder. And of course they don't want anybody to remember facts. (21:09–21:13)

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Asserts that Democrats have cut $50 billion from rural health care.

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