During a press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about citizenship verification for access to Medicaid.
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00:00Peter Jeffries, do you think it makes sense to have citizenship verification for Medicaid and Social Security number requirement for child pass credit?
00:10I think that, you know, we support Medicaid as it currently exists, and the efforts to enact the largest Medicaid cut in American history is unacceptable, it's unnecessary, it's unconscionable, and it's un-American.
00:27If my Republican colleagues want to have a conversation about how we can make health care delivery in the United States of America more affordable, more effective, and more efficient, led by Frank Pallone, the Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee are more than willing to have that conversation.
00:48But we believe that in America, access to high-quality health care is not a privilege, it's a right.
00:56And we've been moving toward getting to a place where every single American can have access to the health care that they need to live a life of dignity and respect.
01:10Unfortunately, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, and the Trump administration are undermining the progress that has been made in the area of health care and are now putting access to health care at risk for millions of people all across this country.
01:31Hospitals will close, including in rural America.
01:34Hospitals will close, including in rural America, nursing homes will shut down in every single community, and people will die.
01:40This is not an effort that we can support, and House Democrats are unified in our strong and principled opposition.