House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday the adoption of President Trump’s domestic agenda would literally hurt and kill people due to cuts to federal health care programs.

The Democratic leader said the Republicans’ designs for Medicaid, in particular, would erode coverage for millions of Americans at the expense of their well-being.

“They want to end Medicaid as we know it,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “They're going to hurt children, hurt families, hurt seniors, hurt people with disabilities, close hospitals, shut down nursing homes — and people will die.

“This is a matter of life and death.”

The warning arrives as Congress is returning to Washington from a two-week spring recess, which Democrats used to stage hundreds of events around the country to amplify their message that Trump’s agenda would hurt poor and working-class........

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