If elected, the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate said Monday the first bill he would introduce would be to erase the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid.

Campaigning in Jackson Monday night, U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom, a Democrat, said a tax increase is needed on high-income earners to allow Mississippians to have health insurance and save state hospitals.

Colom’s campaign stop at Shady Grove Baptist Church had the Senate hopeful talking extensively about federal cuts to Medicaid and how he believes those cuts will adversely impact Mississippians. He said the Trump administration hopes people will become frustrated from being buried in paperwork and not seek coverage.

“What will happen is people will go without healthcare,” Colom said. “When they go to the hospital, because

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