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At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the Big Beautiful Bill.
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00:00hi hello everybody we're going to have to be brief because we have the meeting
00:11with the Prime Minister very soon and we have to vote still okay so I want to
00:17thank Senator Klobuchar for coming Senator Blumenthal's expected but he's
00:21at the Armed Services Committee well it's not even been a week since
00:28President Trump signed his big ugly betrayal and yet shh Americans are
00:35already starting to feel the impacts last week the Republicans rushed reckless
00:41and ran through process resulted in a bill that was not written with input from
00:46the American people but with billionaires corporations and marching orders from
00:51President Trump and the final product was worse for it facts are becoming clearer
00:57and clearer they're damn clear right now this law will create create havoc wreak havoc on
01:04our country and hurt American families across the nation millions will lose
01:08health care millions more will see their premiums skyrocket utility bills will rise
01:13hungry children will lose access to food aid millions of Americans will lose good
01:17paying jobs and middle-class Americans and future generations will pay a lot more
01:22because of the huge deficit more on mortgages small business loans credit cards
01:27car loans because of the crushing and historic debt dumped on their shoulders the
01:33Republicans tried to tell their members oh this won't take effect for a year and a
01:37half bull you cannot make such large cuts and not have it have immediate effect
01:43because hospitals and any kind of business clean energy has to plan for the future so
01:48here this is just a short time after they passed their big ugly betrayal there he's
01:54a few headlines rural Southwest Nebraska clinic closes blaming expected Medicaid cuts
02:00this one is Maine Medicaid cuts lead to rural Maine hospital closures and service
02:07reductions news 9 Oklahoma Oklahoma health care officials warn of rural hospital
02:14closure and pending Medicaid cuts that's just a few and the
02:18numbers going to grow every day every week we'll also be hearing about a lot of job losses clean
02:24energy companies closing right away they can't when they know the tax credit is
02:28going to be cut off shortly they're not going forward right now with their
02:31projects so it's happening everywhere the Nebraska clinic I mentioned has been in
02:38operation for 30 years it serves a town of about 900 people and now it's closing
02:44because of the awful bill throughout the campaign and for months after President
02:49Trump and Republicans promised they would not touch Medicaid that was a lie that was
02:56a lie the headlines already prove it and unfortunately it's just beginning we know
03:02that about 17 million Americans will be ripped off health care tens of thousands will die and
03:09premiums and that's going to happen right away too in the insurance companies have to start its
03:15health insurance insurers have to start setting their premiums in October and because of this bill
03:21going to go way up why to give tax cuts to billionaires it's profane it's morally bankrupt it's
03:29sickening we are already seeing in all the data that the people are hearing what we say and they don't like what the Republicans have done we've been very effective over
03:39the last month in letting America know how bad this is and Amy showed a chart in
03:44our caucus that it was the second most unpopular act that Congress has passed
03:49what was first that would be the most unpopular was the repeal their attempt to
03:56repeal the Affordable Care Act second so was second John McCain comes down that was right
04:01most unpopular and then this one okay and what else is happening Trump is decimating the VA this
04:09week the VA announced plans for wide-scale employee reductions at the VA 30,000 jobs it's going to
04:17make health care for our veterans much much worse and while the big ugly bill jeopardizes health insurance
04:24for veterans while the big ugly bill shuts down hospitals that serve veterans Trump and Republicans
04:29are even putting a greater strain on our veterans by cutting the VA it's a cynical double whammy our veterans pay
04:37the ultimate price for Trump's cruelty so we're going to keep fighting all of these awful cuts we cannot
04:45accept that this cruelty is the new reality

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