Cory Booker: “I am so grateful for that question. It sobers me when you ask it because just a reduction in Medicaid--I love that…”

“I am so grateful for that question. It sobers me when you ask it because just a reduction in Medicaid--I love that metaphor use-- is pulling a string out for families who are barely holding it together right now--families with children with disabilities or who are developmentally disabled who have been struggling so much to get their children into programs that could help move them--some of them to independence, some of them into adulthood where they can get jobs. So many of these things that help to propel these children would be undermined. Just transportation services going away would create hardship and devastation on families. So here we are in America, when costs are going up, housing is going up; we are about to have these awful tariffs where the price of vehicles will go up, the price of transportation will go up. So the ripple effect of an impact on children, just by a fraction of the cuts that they are proposing--not to mention the grandeur of the $880 billion--would have a devastating impact on millions and millions of children. But it doesn't stop there. You quoted King. King said in the letter from the Birmingham jail: We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.…”