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On the recordApril 13, 2025
It does not surprise us that their first economic mission has been to target Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, firing our federal workers, and cutting benefits from our veterans for hundreds of billions of dollars, so that they can hand that money off to the wealthiest.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez criticizes the targeting of social programs to benefit the wealthy.

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