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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Don’t you think if you found a bunch of money in the couch cushions that you would put that to expanding Medicaid…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2025
Don’t you think if you found a bunch of money in the couch cushions that you would put that to expanding Medicaid, improving schools, fixing our roads? Right? But that’s not what they’re planning on doing.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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msnbc.com

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Ocasio-Cortez argues that proposed budget cuts won't benefit public services.

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