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Tammy Baldwin: “My Republican colleagues and the President have repeatedly…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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The Conference: Healthcare with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

Published | Video Starts at 08:50

I mean, like you said, there's just, even though a lot of these cuts are delayed, the health care systems have to plan and there's just so many unknowns for families, patients. Yeah, and we know that My Republican colleagues and the President have repeatedly characterized this nearly trillion dollar cut in Medicaid as an effort to make sure that as they would say, illegal immigrants don't have access to health care and to go after fraud, waste and abuse. But you go a lot further than that. When you cut $880 billion out of Medicaid over 10 years, even the work requirements that are, you know, appear like a reasonable common sense thing that you might have done. (08:50–09:11)

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Asserts that Republicans and the President justify Medicaid cuts as targeting illegal immigrants and fraud.

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