provision in the gop tax and spending legislation. >> who is willie stark? question. does anyone know? >> from the pirates. >> no. willie stark was a fictional name of huey long in all the

king's men, which is my favorite political novel. [inaudible] >> indeed. >> one of the best. >> ever. begins about the highway. >> you don't read are writing? [laughing] >> we hang on your every word. okay. thank you for coming. i want to thank senator wyden and senator hassan for me. we'll all be doing but a devastating the cats to medicaid and healthcare have been. well, it's getting even worse more you look at the bill the house bill, the worse it gets. cbo is about to announce that could go from 13 million, 27 people lose their come up to as many as 16 million. a new calculations will show that even medicare is under the knife.

so this is healthcare across the board. it is of course medicaid as important as that is, it is aca, it is private insurance which is been skyrocketing. it's everything that is terrible. terrible. so the news that even worse got even worse when we thought it couldn't get much worse. the bottom line is very simple. people with this bill, tens of millions with otherwise qualified realtor benefits would be mummified the new red tape, short and enrollment periods come higher premiums in weaker coverage. people will fall through the cracks and get phased out of coverage in the coming years. death by a thousand paper cuts here that the intention of the republican bill and we all know one thing. donald trump is just lying about the bill. line about the bill.

well, here's the we are all going to die at. nearly 14,000,000, but it is 16, getting closer to 16 according to cbo numbers. 11 my 11 million people cutm affordable food, tax cuts for millionaires. we are all going to die bill. that shows the callousness, the callousness of this republican majority in the house and republican majority in the senate. repeal and replace, that by another name. that by another name. and just don't take my word for it. look at senate republicans. we heard what joni ernst said, we're all going to die. how about john kennedy? not the former john kennedy president, but our present senator john kennedy. he said i'm not worried about people losing their health care. we remember the great commerce

secretary lutnick. well, if my mom missed a payment on social security, it wouldn't matter. of course they have a billion or son-in-law. but when joni ernst said people die, she summed up the callousness of the whole republican majority in terms of people's health, and health is our greatest gift. despite the lies republicans have been telling americans and maybe themselves, there's a cold harsh reality that this bill is just tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, paid for by getting health care for up to 16 million americans. and by the way, small business owner could see their premiums skyrocket. do not many -- i believe at the end of the day because so many hospitals will close or layoff people come to believe it could be certainly hundreds of thousands and maybe even over 1 million people losing their

jobs. this is across the board disaster for the american people. now donald trump is trying to lie about it. but mamie till tell our republican senate colleagues, what will be enacted is not donald trump soothing words that the actual reality of harsh cuts for people lose health care can work peoples dreams go up, where hospitals close, nursing homes close if people are laid off. so anyone who thinks of voting for the nice words of donald trump will face the harsh reality when this is an committed. and it moved up the implementation date is both to 2026. do you know what that means? more hospitals close, more people are laid off. health care providers get any time to try and adjust to the harsh reality that republican house members and republican senators want to impose on them. over 850,000 people suspect lose their jobs and i think that estimate is look at i think it

could go well over a million jobs lost. over 10 million people who signed up for their insurance during the last month, healthy people, their costs are going to go up much higher. if the facts that babies. it affects the kids. it affects the young people start now with families. it affects the elderly. across the board it is just terrible. now trump and republicans claim they want to fight fraud. bull bull. they just poured a horrible nursing home owner, i think you got ten years cut or member but he big long since -- they just pardoned -- who committed fraud by taking money from the doctors and the nurses and the aids in his nursing home. they say they want to cut fraud then why did they get rid of the igs who are in charge of fraud? that's bull. they can't see it because they know how unpopular it is but the just want to strangle health

care. and all it does is repealed, okay? let me just say this. for many americans health care coverage is the difference between life and death but according to a ernst, fear not, we are going to die anyway. tell that to the american people. let me be clear, democrats are ready. we're ready to fight. we're doubling down. we're ready to show americans what's really at stake you because this fight will not be one just in the capital. as lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. when public sentiment hears about this, we we're all goio die act, they will tell the senators who think they can get away with a yes vote and explained, there sounded mistaken. the cuts are too deep, too real,

the cuts into devastating. okay? and finally, wired and all this? why are they being so mean? while living so cool and so politically -- at best suicidal. at worst all to give taxpayers to beginners. they are in total obeisance to obedience to donald trump and a very small group of very wealthy prepubescent out of your what do little else, cut my taxes and by the way given any regulation. senator wyden. >> thank you very much, mr. leader. let me pick up on where the leader stopped. the legislation is rapidly, and anti-senior bill. and let me walk you through why that was the case. a million low income seniors are

going to see the medicare premiums go up by nearly $200 a month. the bill makes nursing homes less safe for frail seniors because it rolled back safety standards. for example, members are some of thinks that ai is going to take care of everything that seniors need and rest homes. we pointed out to him fast i could help and 85-year-old was up in the middle of the night and asked to make their way to the bathroom. the bill is going to hurt hundreds of thousands of seniors by reducing services for those who count on medicaid to lose care at home. and then the american people have heard things about medicaid in this bill and being so

harmful. they are also going to learn that this bill would trigger $500 billion in medicare cuts. this is going to hurt rural hospitals like a wrecking ball. now, if you're an older person in america, this is also going to come on top of the trump administration backing away from efforts to lower prescription drug costs. and we feel that this is a hugely big mistake. we worked very hard to get the power to negotiate more affordable medicine for seniors. and all these cuts in senior programs that i've mentioned come on top of the trump message to seniors were not really interested in holding down your costs of medicine. now, as the leader touched on the latest numbers from cbo

released two hours ago, make it clear that there are going to be more than a trillion dollars in cuts to americans health care. and we do expect to hear later today that even more americans are going to be losing their health insurance and initial estimates from the nonpartisan budget office have disclosed. but i do think that the american people want to know what is actually going on, and particularly for the seniors who i have known since my days when i was director of the gray panthers. they have a right to know what incredibly harmful provisions are in the text of this legislation as of now. there's been some discussion about medicaid but you all, i'm a journalist kid, can now go out until the elderly of this country how this bill is going to affect them there because they've a right to know and they

are not going to like it is a morally bankrupt bill, boils down to health care cuts for americans talking on an economic type of, what the bill is all about. it's going to be paid for by extra tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. senator hassan and die or methods of the finance committee. you can be sure we will be fighting this every step of the way. as a leader note we are going to use every single tool at our disposal to fight this. i don't think republicans even want to talk about the specifics that the three of us, the leader and i have roots in the finance committee. we remember the days when republicans wanted to go into the finance committee, have market. they don't want to go into the finance committee and have markup because it don't want to talk about health care cuts that hitting people with. so senator schumer, our lead and senator hassan, great to be with both of you. thank you. >> good afternoon spent great senator hassan, one of our

later. >> bravo. >> thank you leader schumer. thank you, chairman wyden, ranking member wyden, for your remarks and for your leadership. thank you all for being here this afternoon. look, president trump and congressional republicans continue to push forward a bill against more tax breaks to billionaires and corporate special interests paid for by trillions being added to the national debt, paid for by taking health care coverage away from 36,000 granite staters and millions of americans and trigger nearly $500 in cuts to medicare. just last week i met with granite staters including in new hampshire's rural north country. and i heard about what which would be devastating impact that these health care cuts will have on both the people who need health care and on the ability of providers who want to serve patients to keep the doors open.

a young mother in nashua, new hampshire, and a solo part of the state talk to me about the services that her son with autism gets because his medicaid coverage for artificial l therapy, physical therapy, behavioral therapy. he's making great progress. all of that is now at risk because of this bill. now medicaid can be the difference between life or death for people and families. the difference between getting care for diabetes for addiction or cancer are having these diseases go untreated. and seniors across our state have paid in the medicare their entire working lives based on the promise that the medicare system will provide health care for them when they retire. this bill, one of the largest health care cuts in the history of the united states, let me repeat that come this is one of the largest health care cuts in history of the united states

will result in more untreated diseases, packed emergency rooms and even higher prescription drug prices. just last week some i know was that one of our local hospitals emergency rooms. the wait for treatment for a routine infection in the emergency room was seven hours. that's a a real problem and it will only get much worse if this bill passes. and as people lose their coverage and don't get care, rural providers who count on these patients will have to severely cut back their services or close the doors altogether the let me tell you what's happening for pregnant women in my state. great pregnant women in labor as you all know every minute feels like an hour. in new hampshire the median driving time to labor and delivery unit has already doubled over the last decade to 40 minutes. if more hospitals have to close

the labor and delivery units because of these medicaid cuts, that time will grow even longer. let's also be clear especially in the northern part of my state, if it's wintertime, that 40 minute drive maybe a life-threatening drive in and of itself. and it will take much longer. we've seen an uptick in new hampshire and births that he couldn't unplanned locations just in january a couple who ended up having come she had a home birth because you couldn't get to the hospital in time. for older and disabled granite staters, i heard in the north country last week about a woman in her 80s who lives alone with her adult disabled son, who needs a community health worker to navigate the paperwork to apply for medicaid and get the redetermination every year for her adult disabled son. she can't get get the paperk without the help of a community health worker and human health worker positions being cut by

this administration. so these new rules will have real impact on people like my constituent which is described and her disabled son. the bottom line here is clear. if congressional republicans and donald trump are way and pass the bill to give billionaires and corporate special interests more tax breaks at the expense of the middle class, more people will get sick, health providers will be impacted, our economy will be weakened, and families will be hurt. and last thing i want to remind people that my colleagues and i am both sides of the aisle have, in fact, put forward and none of my purse and proposals to lower health care costs. there is real work to be done in this area but if my republican colleagues are willing to abandon the danger of partisan bill, we could actually do this

work together and actually lower costs come health care costs, for our constituents. but right now it appears they are determined to pass this devastating bill. we are going to continue to speak out about the harms it will cause, about the trillions it will add to our deficit, about the health care providers who will be to close their doors, about the real dangers this provides to the health, the security and the economy of our states and our country. thank you. >> well done, maggie hassan. just a guess i heard everything is getting worse. the more you look at the bill the worse the gets. it's now $1 trillion in cuts. it's over 800,000 job loss. many of the nursing homes in rural hospitals. just remember they depend on medicaid disproportionally. i've been in nursing homes in downstate, estate, rural. they're all worried it will

close, 70-80% of the revenue is medicaid. same with world hospitals. then you at the medicare problems to it and health care provider can some of the hospitals are going be devastated have to lay off people and not be able to treat people as well but for the world hospitals and the smaller hospitals this is really death. the bottom line is this is going to be devastating to america. i think if a republican colleagues, god. they pass this bill and it becomes law, to turn the clock unit, they also come why did we do that? why did we do that? question is on the subject? yes, then. >> gop lawmakers have finished their budget bill medicaid reform by highlighting cbo projections about the 1.4 million illegal immigrants losing their coverage under state-funded health care programs. is reducing -- to undocumented

immigrants of reform? >> bottom line is this overall bill is so awful. they want if they get specific issues, anyway. don't just do a meat axe or chainsaw across the board and cut everything in between every thing. i don't know if the numbers are accurate. these are gop numbers but it doesn't matter. the bottom right is beyond even what they're talking about and hurts everybody. next question. next question. >> considering elon musk's robust opposition to this bill and effect he is not return the call to speak of houston according to the speaker can we do try to bring into the fold to help kill this bill in dissent? >> he's not my cup of tea, to put it mildly, but republicans are already listening to him. they are already listening to him. you at some of the right-wing groups uplift elon musk against

donald trump. yes? >> one of the things it sounds like you want to bring back the ev tax credit doesn't together the reagan solution builder that another think you agree with elon musk? >> i spoke on the phone about whether doing overall and energy is just ridiculous. it's going to raise peoples costs. thousands of dollars in terms of their power costs. number two, over 840,000 jobs will be lost. never through thickets all the keys to try. we have to be -- the entire energy package and i've met so times with my democratic center eight of my democratic colleagues, senator wyden was in those meetings, and we are reaching out to republican colleagues as are interested that are affected. 80% of the new clean energy industries are in republican states. the whole thing needs revamping. the whole thing needs revamping just like in health care. yes. >> do you urge members to vote

against the genius act? >> i voted no. there's a division enterococcus on that issue. the reason i voted no is because it did nothing to stop donald trump and his family from engaging in self aggrandizing, self enriching activities. yes. >> omb set over a package to the hill. .. the package is dead and it will not pass your do you agree?

send it over to us yet and will see what happens in the house. thank you, everyone.