The Hill: Sanders Warns All 50 Governors about Effects of GOP Budget
media mentionSanders told Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) that approximately 1.6 million people would lose health coverage next year. About 141,000 jobs could be eliminated by 2017, and 3.5 million people could be at risk of losing nutrition assistance because of food stamps cuts, Sanders said.
The data was based on analyses of the GOP budgets from the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.