All right, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show on this Monday.

What can I say?

It's great to be back.

It was hard to leave all of you over here while I was overseas, but I'm feeling rested and energized, but also jet lagged and in need of a nap.

It's kind of a twisted tail.

But I think there are some U.S. senators right now that could use a nap up on Capitol Hill this afternoon.

The Republican-controlled Senate appears to be hell-bent on taking trillions of dollars of your tax dollars and handing

that to the wealthy in this country in the form of extending the Trump tax rates. The GOP plans to

pay for all of that by driving up the debt by $3 trillion over the next decade and by cutting

critical programs like

Medicaid by more than a trillion dollars. As you can see, my big guest today to talk about this is

Democratic Congressman Richie Torres of New York. Congressman, great to see you.

It's a pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to have you on. Thanks so much for doing this.

And your staff was telling me that your district has some of the highest enrollment numbers for Medicaid in the country, if not the highest. And so I guess, first of all, how is this going to impact your constituents? Because it sounds like, as I was saying, the Republicans are hell-bent on doing this, and the numbers might move a little bit here

and there, but Medicaid is due for a huge cut, just a huge cut here in the coming days.

The Republican reconciliation bill is a catastrophe for the Bronx. So I represent the poorest congressional

district in America.

67% of my district is enrolled in Medicaid. Wow. So more than 70% of children, more than 80% of

nursing home residents, more than 90% of baby deliveries are covered by Medicaid. Just about every

hospital in my district

is either teetering on the brink or in the red.

And so a nearly trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid

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