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We love being on Capitol Hill because, you know,

we just put one of our good team downstairs and look for members of Congress kind of walking

by and snag them, bring them up to the studio. And look at what we got this morning, Congressman

Ruben Gallegos from the guyago sorry you go thank you from the seventh congressional

district in arizona congressman good to see you could see you too thanks for having me all right

having fun always yeah that's the last word for it yeah i make it fun somehow yeah you have to

yeah good for you so what's your take on this whole number one, the plan that

the Republicans finally have come up with to replace Obamacare and the way they've rolled it up?

I mean, it's a whole debacle. I mean, first of all, it's not a health care plan. It's a tax cut

plan first. Their goal was to cut the taxes for the top earners that were getting taxed under the Affordable Health Care Act. And then they built a health care plan around it. And at the end of the day, they still don't have the votes among Republicans. They're not going to have any support among Democrats. And the only way they can actually get the votes to pass, they're only going to have to make this bill even worse. And just some of the stuff that's in this bill right now is pretty bad. You know, the basically capping Medicaid expansion, which is really important for many states, especially Arizona, for example, you know, we have Medicaid expansion. I was in the statehouse when we passed it. I worked on it. There's no way for us to balance the budget

without Medicaid expansion. There are tons of hospitals that will just close down. Emergency

rooms would just close down without Medicaid expansion. This is why you have the Hospital

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