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On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
Well, how about if they say this to me, they say, well, dollars are some of it, and I see that there is a Medicaid cut that is somewhere between $800 billion and $1.4 trillion, and I see that there is a tax cut that is $992 billion.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine questions the fairness of Medicaid cuts alongside significant tax cuts.

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