Hakeem Jeffries Asked: Do Democrats Support Cutting State Medicaid Programs For Non-Citizens?

At a press briefing on Monday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about potential cuts to state Medicaid programs.

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00:00Last question.

00:02Republicans are using the package to prevent state Medicaid funding going to non-citizens.

00:08The governors of Minnesota and California have in different ways been cutting that off.

00:13Are they wrong to do that?

00:14Are Democrats opposed to cutting off state Medicaid programs that go to non-citizens?

00:18What's interesting is that Republicans have tried to make this a talking point

00:23when, as far as I can tell, the overwhelming majority of people

00:29who are going to be hurt by their efforts to take away Medicaid

00:35and, as a result, will lose their health care are American citizens.

00:41That's the overwhelming majority of the 13.7 million people

00:47who are going to lose their health care because of Republican efforts to provide Elon Musk

00:53and their billionaire donors with a massive tax break.

00:57That's what's unacceptable.

00:59That's what's unconscionable.

01:01And that is what is un-American.