Pelosi Statement on CBO Report on 20-Year Trumpcare Medicaid Cuts

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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the CBO released its report on Trumpcare's impacts on Medicaid over the next 20 years:

"As brutal as Trumpcare's impacts are in the immediate future, today's CBO report reveals Republicans are hiding even deeper damage in the long term.

"The Medicaid cuts in the next 10 years will already devastate millions of seniors, people struggling with opioid addiction, and working families in communities across America. That these staggering Medicaid cuts expand to 35 percent in 2036 is a truly catastrophic future for rural hospitals, veterans, and the next generation of seniors in nursing homes.

"With Trumpcare's Medicaid cuts alone, untold millions of Americans will be denied access to the care they need. If Republicans have their way, an entire generation will be cut off from one of the most important pillars of health security in America. The battle to defeat Trumpcare is a fight to protect Americans' right to health care today and long into the future."

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