During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget.
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00:00On health care.
00:07Donald Trump and his so-called big beautiful bill is ugly to its very core.
00:16Behind the smoke and mirrors lies a cruel and draconian truth.
00:21Tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy paid for by gutting health care for millions of Americans.
00:27Over the past few days, Donald Trump has tried to sell this bill to Republican senators with a new lie.
00:36He's been telling Republican senators and the American people that no one will lose coverage.
00:42That no benefits will be slashed.
00:45That the bill won't harm recipients.
00:49Let's call it what it is.
00:52A lie.
00:54People will lose coverage.
00:56Millions will.
00:56Donald Trump is lying to the American people when he says no one will lose coverage under this ugly bill.
01:05There is no way for Republicans to seek the cuts they want without removing millions of people off their health care in one way or another.
01:15I warn my Republican colleagues, do not buy Donald Trump's snake oil sales pitch.
01:21Republicans want to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse.
01:24Good.
01:25We'll help them do it.
01:27This bill certainly isn't that.
01:30Make no mistake.
01:32This big beautiful bill is in reality repeal and replace by another name.
01:37This is a health care bill to its core.
01:43To cut through their lies, let's talk facts.
01:46Fact.
01:4820 million Americans will see their health care costs go up.
01:51Fact.
01:5214 million Americans, including children and seniors, will lose their coverage entirely.
01:57Fact.
01:57Fact.
01:58Of adult Medicaid recipients.
02:00Fact.
02:02Adult Medicaid recipients.
02:05Vast majority.
02:06Overwhelming majority.
02:07Already work.
02:09Many of them will be thrown off coverage anyway.
02:12Fact.
02:12Fact.
02:14This bill has millions lose health care.
02:19Donald Trump wants to talk fraud.
02:22Republicans want to talk fraud.
02:24Fine.
02:25The fraud we actually see in Medicaid isn't coming from families making ends meet.
02:31It's coming from the top.
02:33Large providers.
02:34Unscrupulous bigwigs.
02:36The reality is that most fraud in Medicaid happens not with individual enrollees,
02:40but at the level of health care providers, not all of them, not most of them, but a handful
02:46who do fraud.
02:49Donald Trump, it's more than a handful, but it's not all of them at all.
02:54But Donald Trump is doing nothing to hold them accountable.
02:58Just the opposite.
03:00The other day, he pardoned a nursing home executive who skimmed $10 million from the paychecks of
03:05nurses, doctors, and other employees.
03:07Hear that, folks?
03:08Donald Trump, who says he wants to reduce fraud, just pardoned a nursing home executive who
03:17skimmed $10 million from the paychecks of his employees.
03:21The reality is simple.
03:23There's not enough fraud in Medicaid and ACA to make Republicans' math work.
03:28They know it.
03:29Republicans may not want to admit it publicly, but they know that under their current proposal,
03:34millions of Americans, including millions who are employed, who have families, will lose
03:40their health care coverage.
03:43Republicans want to shorten the enrollment period.
03:47They want to bury families in red tape.
03:50They want to drown states in new administrative hurdles.
03:54Republicans' strategy, in large part, is to make it so difficult for people to sign up for health care,
04:00health care, so easy to fall through the cracks that tens of millions of Americans will simply lose coverage.
04:06And it would be by design.
04:09Just ask the vote.
04:10Just look at 2025.
04:13Senate Republicans can make jokes all they want that we're going to die anyway.
04:18But for many working class Americans, health care is the difference between life and death.
04:24Let me be clear.
04:27Democrats are ready.
04:29When Republicans finally release the full text of their so-called big, beautiful bill,
04:34Americans' people will see the truth.
04:36They will see how ugly it is.
04:38And we will fight it with facts, with urgency, and with the voices of the millions of Americans
04:43who deserve better than this cruel, cynical attack on their health care and on their dignity.
04:50And we will see how ugly it is.