Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Senator Whitehouse for his important words and all the Senators who have come to the floor this afternoon to talk about the Republican plans to dismantle our healthcare system. As we speak, Republicans in the Senate are busy behind closed doors working overtime to come up with a secret health plan to ram through the Senate. I guess they are afraid of how the public would react if we could see the full scope of their plans, but in the last 24 hours, we have seen new details about what they want to do. The formula is as clear as it is cruel: destroy healthcare for tens of millions of Americans, including people struggling under the weight of our national opioid crisis. Why? In order to give tax cuts to rich people. These plans are simply unforgivable, and I say ``unforgivable'' because I cannot find any justification that makes it OK to take away health insurance from 23 million Americans. I cannot come up with a single sliver of an argument that says it makes sense to rip away more than $800 billion from kids with complex medical needs, seniors in nursing homes, and one of the largest sources of help for people and families struggling with substance abuse disorder, all to produce tax breaks for a handful of millionaires and billionaires. The Republican agenda is destroying healthcare in this country, and it has never been clearer. President Trump released his budget proposal this week.…”