Nancy Pelosi Calls On Voters To Vocalize Their Discontent With GOP's Proposed Cuts To Medicaid

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During a Medicaid Day of Action press briefing on Tuesday, Speaker Emerita Pelosi (D-CA) urged voters in Republican districts to voice their discontent with Republicans' proposed cuts to Medicaid.

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00:00As you can see, Sasha is always an inspiration to us.

00:03We learn so much from her.

00:05And also, we were so proud that she graduated from UC Berkeley.

00:09Everybody can make that point.

00:11Sasha's mom was with us earlier.

00:13We thank her sister-in-law for participating in the presentation.

00:19Thank all of our – as you heard from our – from Chanel and from Sasha,

00:25who are right there working with people directly,

00:28this has such an impact immediately on people's lives.

00:32I heard from Dr. Harold and Dr. Adler,

00:36in terms of the big picture of what it means to institutions

00:41who serve and meet the needs of these people.

00:44This is about our values as a country.

00:47Our budget should be a statement of our national values.

00:51What is important to us should be reflected in that budget.

00:55But what we see now is an assault on our values.

01:00And to make this assault on our budget,

01:03$800 billion coming out of Medicaid.

01:08But we don't agonize.

01:10We organize.

01:11And this day, today, we have scores of events across the country,

01:16starting in New York and across the country.

01:20And we'll have them tomorrow and the next day and the next day.

01:23And the beat will go on.

01:25And Chanel, when you talked about the impact on the black community,

01:29our inspiration has been Dr. King from the start.

01:33Dr. King said, of all forms of injustice and inequity,

01:38what is happening with health care is the most inhuman,

01:42because people could die.

01:44With that, Mr. – our co-chair of this event, Mr. Thompson,

01:48and I would be happy to take questions, as will our guests as well.

01:52I'll do the on-topic questions first.

01:55So this is – I know that this is something you held at events

01:59just a couple weeks ago, just to have people aware of this.

02:04This has come up as a budget resolution

02:06that a couple of your senatorial colleagues actually supported.

02:09So what should voters do?

02:11What can people actually do about what's coming next?

02:16Well, I don't know if anyone wants to answer the question,

02:19but what I would say is when we are operating in the Congress,

02:24our inside maneuvering can just go so far.

02:27It's the outside mobilization that makes the difference.

02:31So what we are doing today with the drumbeat across America,

02:35with the impact of these statements you've heard today,

02:39not from us but from others who are at the mercy of

02:43or are delivering services to those at the mercy of,

02:47that drumbeat is really important.

02:50And what we want our Republican colleagues to do

02:53is to hear it from their own constituents.

02:56I think it's more eloquent to a member of Congress

02:59than it is to our own constituents.

03:01When the Republican members – like in California, there's one member.

03:05We have about 800,000 people in our district.

03:09Not many more.

03:11He has 500,000 people on Medicaid.

03:15We want his constituents to tell him what it means to them.

03:18Who is that?

Nancy Pelosi Calls On Voters To Vocalize Their Discontent With GOP's Proposed Cuts To Medicaid

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