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Senator Welch says families be damned for Republican agenda to cut Medicaid for beautiful tax cuts bill

Vermont Senator Peter Welch says at a news conference with fellow democrats to voice opposition to potential cuts to Medicaid in a fiscal year 2025 budget resolution pending in the senate that despite President Trump's claims of supporting Medicaid and working families, the president's primary agenda focused on cutting taxes for billionaires while devastating Medicaid cuts threatened Vermont, where 25% of families received Medicaid and two-thirds of nursing home beds depended on Medicaid support, which created trauma for families and state budgets as Trump's supposed love for Medicaid abandoned grandmothers in nursing homes and seriously ill children in favor of tax cuts.
Vermont Senator Peter Welch says at a news conference with fellow democrats to voice opposition to potential cuts to Medicaid in a fiscal year 2025 budget resolution pending in the senate that despite President Trump's claims of supporting Medicaid and working families, the president's primary agenda focused on cutting taxes for billionaires while devastating Medicaid cuts threatened Vermont, where 25% of families received Medicaid and two-thirds of nursing home beds depended on Medicaid support, which created trauma for families and state budgets as Trump's supposed love for Medicaid abandoned grandmothers in nursing homes and seriously ill children in favor of tax cuts.
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