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Hakeem Jeffries: “I am struggling to try to figure out why this Administration proposes essentially to slash $1.5 trillion in Medicaid”

On the recordMarch 25, 2019
I am struggling to try to figure out why this Administration proposes essentially to slash $1.5 trillion in Medicaid
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Jeffries criticizes the proposed cuts to Medicaid funding.

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