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MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War

Published August 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:29

People, people are really going to be deep in the hole on this. And I'm just wondering, can the American people take much more? Well, We need to be truth tellers about the implications of Trump's actions and the Republicans actions in voting for this big ugly bill. and many other actions they are planning on taking. We are going to remind people the consequences. They will lie. (08:29–08:40)

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“The president just signed this big ugly bill into law... Is it not enough to kick 17 million people off their health plans?”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 06:41-06:55
“Not enough to take food stock stamps away from 3 million people.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 06:55-07:00
“Is it not enough to add $3.5 trillion to the debt?”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 06:59-07:04
“Trump's tariffs are raising costs for families, whether that's food at the grocery store.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 01:34-01:44
“My farmers get inputs from Canada and from other countries, and that brings the cost of production up.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 02:05-02:13
“Consumers, our constituents are going to see higher prices at the grocery store, at the gas pump, their energy bills, their housing bills.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 02:26-02:36
“Health care costs are going to go up dramatically. Many are going to lose their health care.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 02:39-02:44
“There's a bipartisan appetite to rein in this president [regarding tariffs].”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 04:32-04:42
“We had a vote on the floor where we repealed or you know, we addressed the emergency declaration that underpinned the Canadian tariffs.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 04:54-05:09
“My senior colleague is a deficit hawk, he says, but yet voted for [a bill that increased the deficit].”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 07:03-07:10
“We need to make sure that the public is crystal clear about why their grocery bill isn't going down, but is in fact going up.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 08:51-08:59
“Why their energy bill isn't going down, but is in fact going up.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 08:58-09:03
“Why small businesses and farmers are having more input costs and their margins are getting thinner and thinner and some are going out of…”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 09:02-09:11
“I do believe that there's a bipartisan willingness to reconstitute our international health efforts.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 11:33-11:45
“PEPFAR was a wildly popular program at its inception.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 11:45-11:50
“The success [of PEPFAR] has been phenomenal.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:08-12:12
“To have it [PEPFAR] pulled away overnight is, first of all, cruel and has disastrous impacts.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:11-12:20
“There's bipartisan support for PEPFAR and some of the other health programs and even some of the nutrition programs.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:48-12:57
“Our farmers, by the way, benefit from the nutrition programs that we when we send food abroad and commodities abroad, our farmers benefit.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:56-13:08