Clinton hits GOP over lack of children’s health funding

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Hillary Clinton is pushing Congress to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), denouncing Republicans for passing tax cuts while the program’s authorization has expired. 

“I’m going to keep tweeting about this, and speaking out every chance I get, until it is fixed,” the former Democratic presidential nominee tweeted on Thursday. 

The authorization for CHIP, which covers 9 million children, expired on Sept. 30, but no states have yet run out of money. Several states are in danger of running out soon, though, some by the end of the year. 

While funding for the program has been bogged down in partisan fighting over how to pay for it, CHIP money is expected to be added to a year-end spending package later this month. 

Congressional Democrats, in particular, are making CHIP funding a key demand.

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