Political Quotes

“Mr. President, President Trump said last week that the healthcare bill passed by the House was ``mean,'' and then he said the Senate should make the bill more ``generous, kind [and] with heart.'' It sounds like the President is having second thoughts about this Republican bill. So now, Mr. President, you are waking up and noticing just how heartless this bill is; you know, the bill your Republican buddies in Congress slapped together in a back room; you know, the one you celebrated with a big press conference in the Rose Garden a few weeks ago; you know, the bill that you and House Republicans gave each other high fives over for taking away healthcare from millions of people, and now it sounds like you want a do-over. Too bad no one explained to the President that mean is just part of the deal the Republicans have struck. Mean is baked into every sentence of this bill. When you set out to trade health insurance of millions of American families for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, things get real mean fast. This mean bill does a lot of things, but some of the meanest things about it are how hard it will hit American women. To pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for this bill, Republicans chose to make one of their classic moves--a sort of old reliable for Republican men: attack women's healthcare. Let's run through just a few examples. Today, most people helped by Medicaid are women. The Republican bill cuts Medicaid by $834 billion.…”