Pelosi: Voting for a House Republican Is a Vote to Eliminate Medicaid, Medicare

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), speaks about the b
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Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said a vote for a Republican member of the House of Representatives was a vote to “to dismantle Medicaid and to eliminate the guarantee of Medicare.”

Pelosi said, “I think it is really important for the voters in those districts to know who the candidates will be voting with. Will they be voting with Paul Ryan who wants to eliminate the guarantee Medicare, who has voted privatize Social Security, who’s there to dismantle Medicaid. It’s not is not a question of the person just like it isn’t about the president, it’s a question of the policy. S if you want to vote for someone like Paul Ryan for speaker, it is a vote to dismantle Medicaid and to eliminate the guarantee of Medicare. Medicare is a guarantee. You take away the guarantee, you eliminate Medicare as we know it, and to move on to private — by the way, those views are shared by the president’s appointees to his cabinet.”

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