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Profile in Peril: Antoinette

Profile in Peril: Antoinette

As Antoinette knows firsthand, cuts to Medicaid would be fatal for seniors. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in NY-11 needs to listen—and refuse to give in to Trump.

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May 01, 2025
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This is the third in a series of Profiles in Peril—snapshots of forgotten Americans facing the direct effects of Trump’s cruelty. Please feel free to share far and wide, and reuse images, video, and text. For earlier Profiles in Peril, see Sebastian’s and Gabby’s stories.

Antoinette Wagnerman is retired now.

But for 30 years, she was a nurse in New York C…

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Bliss Broyard
Bliss Broyard is the author of One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets and is working on a book of memoir and reportage called Grand Avenue: A Tale of Two Cities in Brooklyn.
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