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Jrose

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Tue May 13, 2025, 04:49 PM May 2025

Democratic Senators Crash House To Protest Medicaid Cuts [View all]

Democratic Senators Cory Booker (NJ), Tina Smith (MN), and Brian Schatz (HI) showed up to protest Medicaid cuts with a hand delivered letter during the committee markup.

[Politicus USA, May 13, 2025]
'Some Democratic Senators aren’t sitting by and waiting on their hands as three House committees mark up legislation that would take away health care from nearly 14 million people.

'Sens. Booker, Smith, Schatz made the walk across the Capitol to hand deliver letters from their constituents protesting the Medicaid cuts.

'The Senators said, ““We are going over to deliver some letters from our constituents about how damaging this Medicaid cuts are that the House is taking up right now, 14 million people losing their health insurance. And we want to draw attention to what it is they're trying to do.”

https://www.politicususa.com/p/democratic-senators-crash-house-to?publication_id=3373725&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=3jvpe3#:~:text=Read%20in%20the,14%20million%20people.
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