"If rural hospitals close, what's the difference between that and a benefit cut? That's pretty tough."
"a wing of the party wants Republicans to build our big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor. But that argument is both morally wrong and politically suicidal."
"I just want to make sure that there are no Medicaid benefit cuts."
"Taking away healthcare coverage isn’t just 'morally wrong and politically suicidal.'"
"slashing health insurance for the working poor is both morally wrong and politically suicidal."
"If Republicans want to be a working-class party — if we want to be a majority party — we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid."
"Why shouldn’t we be breaking you guys up? This looks like classic monopolist behavior. The patients are getting screwed. … You’re getting rich."
"The Senate will basically write its own version of this bill."
"I’m not happy about the fact we’re still waiting from all of that damage two months ago. We lost 12 people in those storms. We’ve lost seven here."
"It needs to be higher."
"We need to get the federal government mobilized."