Cory Booker
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So it's literally taking resources from low-income, hardworking people and giving them to the wealthiest.
And you're right.
The damage it's going to do to food supports, for programs for the disabled, for programs for our elderly, the damage it's going to do to rural hospitals.
And frankly, I know there's a lot of talk about the rural hospitals because the Senate is an agrarian body.
Remember,
Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, a lot of rural hospitals, but even in urban, big urban centers from Chicago to New York to Los Angeles to Houston, they're going to lose a lot of money for their hospitals as well.
In addition to all of that.
People who have health care premiums through the Affordable Care Act are going to see their premiums go up by nearly $1,000, $900-plus.
People who have energy costs – in my state, energy costs are going to go up between 20% and 30% more for their energy bills.
And the jobs –
For people who are in construction jobs, people who are in the clean energy jobs, it's going to cost us millions and millions of jobs as they claw back a lot of these resources that we were putting out there to help us to build out our clean energy grid and do more great energy projects that were being funded.
through a lot of the tax credits and more that we did during the Biden administration.
So this is a gutting and cutting of jobs, of food aid, of health care, of Medicaid, of hospitals, and more, all adding to the increased costs of the average working American.
Yes.
And we have two tranches because we have the 2017 fight here in the Senate, but we can also redo the 2017 fight where we weren't in 2017, fight it in the House.
What do we mean by that?
In 2017, we convinced three senators, Susan Collins, Murkowski, who are still here, plus John McCain, to flip their votes and save the Affordable Care Act.
Now we need four.
We've got two already.
You were talking about it before, Rand Paul, and then we also have
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