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Hakeem Jeffries: “If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a duck. It is a $500 billion cut to…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2020
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a duck. It is a $500 billion cut to Medicare over a 10-year period of time.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries argues that the budget cuts Medicare significantly.

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