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🗓️ 10 May 2025
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Let's talk about official Medicaid cut numbers and question form a republican....
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
0:05.0 | So today, we're going to talk about official Medicaid cut numbers and a really important question |
0:12.1 | from a Republican. |
0:14.5 | There's been quite a few news items that have provided vindication for people who understand |
0:19.4 | math lately and who have been repeatedly |
0:22.6 | trying to explain that Congressional Republican math doesn't math. |
0:28.1 | When we tried to explain that Republicans would have to make deep cuts to Medicaid to keep |
0:33.6 | their tax cuts and avoid sending the debt through the roof. |
0:37.5 | Republicans said that wasn't true. |
0:40.7 | Then the Congressional Budget Office released their numbers and showed yes, they have to make |
0:46.7 | the deep cuts. |
0:48.8 | Then we tried to explain that the cuts were so big it would require kicking people off of Medicaid. Republicans |
0:57.0 | said no, it would just be waste and fraud. Well, the Congressional Budget Office has released |
1:04.0 | its estimates. Millions. Millions of Americans will lose their health care coverage so the GOP can get its one big beautiful bill and tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy. |
1:18.2 | The CBO went over several options being entertained by the GOP. |
1:23.3 | The least damaging only removed 2.3 million people. |
1:28.3 | To be 100% clear, this is not fraud waste or abuse, and this is not from Democrats. |
1:35.4 | This is the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. |
1:39.3 | This is the GOP cutting the program's funding so deeply that millions of America's most vulnerable |
1:46.6 | will be left without, so Trump's friends can afford their second slip payment for their |
1:52.2 | yacht. The option that is least damaging will also not get them the cuts they need to keep the |
1:59.5 | tax cuts and avoid drastically increasing the debt. |
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