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Tim Kaine: “In last year's budget, we had a deal about spending on…”

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Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate

Published September 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:59

When you negotiate and you shake hands, a deal should be a deal. And this actually is related to healthcare as well. In last year's budget, we had a deal about spending on healthcare priorities. Early in this administration, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announced that he was clawing back billions of dollars of health care funding to. (09:59–10:06)

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Asserts that there was a budget deal regarding healthcare spending priorities.

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“The 10 insurers that participate in the Virginia individual market in 2026 have requested rate increases from their 2025 rates, with most…”
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“Virginia hospitals stand to lose up to $26 billion in Medicaid cuts over the course of the next 14 years because of the reconciliation bill.”
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“Early in this administration, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announced that he was clawing back billions…”
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“To Virginia, it was $400 million, $400 million of health care funding that we had planned on using during the worst increase in measles, for…”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 10:20-10:46
“Because of that reconciliation bill, six hospitals in Virginia are at risk of closure.”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 01:09-01:16
“136,000 will lose the health insurance that they're currently able to access through the Affordable Care Act.”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 01:27-01:35
“Another 166,000 will likely lose health insurance because of cuts to the Medicaid program.”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 01:34-01:42
“We actually had the first closures in Virginia. A well respected healthcare network in the Shenandoah Valley that has a hospital in Augusta…”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 03:16-03:38
“When you make cuts to Medicaid or to these premiums, five different things happen. People lose health insurance.”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 07:05-07:14
“Those who retain health insurance see their premiums go up often because the folks without insurance go to the emergency room.”
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“Providers close. And when providers close, there's a fourth effect, which is people lose their jobs.”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 07:37-07:44
“The decline in healthcare clinics and hospitals actually is sort of like a theft of a community's future because it makes it very difficult…”
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“500 workers and contractors lost their jobs as we were trying to deal with measles and other health epidemics.”
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“I have communities in Virginia who had had economic development projects announced, and they were counting on them for their future.”
Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate | Uploaded September 19, 2025 | 10:46-10:54
“Those funds in many instances have been clawed back.”
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