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