Cory Booker: “Well, that is the thing that is so significant. Already, Governors and mayors are writing letters and speaking up. When…”

“Well, that is the thing that is so significant. Already, Governors and mayors are writing letters and speaking up. When I go to different cities in New Jersey, I am often called by local leaders because they know, No. 1, the stories of the people who rely on Medicaid--the seniors, the children, the disabled families. But more importantly than that, they know their hospitals who already have very fragile budgets, to carve out millions and millions of dollars, as I said, over tens of millions of dollars for our level 1 trauma hospital in New Jersey, that would devastate the entire economic model for our hospital. It would affect jobs. It would affect the economy. It would affect small businesses. It would be devastating.”