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Paul Tonko: It cannot be said enough, but you simply can't put forward a legitimate proposal for addressing the opioid epidemic at…

On the recordFebruary 14, 2018
It cannot be said enough, but you simply can't put forward a legitimate proposal for addressing the opioid epidemic at the same time that you are proposing more than a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko asserts that budget cuts to Medicaid undermine efforts to combat the opioid crisis.

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