Cory Booker: “Thank you for the question, Senator Klobuchar. I love that you are bringing it back to real people and what effect it is…”

“Thank you for the question, Senator Klobuchar. I love that you are bringing it back to real people and what effect it is having. What you are spelling out is something that is really important. There is a strategy that they have expressly said: They want to overwhelm you--not us. They want to overwhelm the American people. They want to flood the zone. So I see a whole bunch of trying to do things to distract us: Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America, Greenland--all these things to try to whip us up and not pay attention to what most Americans are concerned with: Can they make ends meet? Even the big reconciliation bill that they are going to try to do that we have to find a way to appeal to a small group of Republican Congresspeople to stop the cutting of $880 million out of Medicaid--we went through in great detail at length last night why that is bad, but you are pointing to something even more insidious, which is that big things are going on. They actually are cutting the support to get more people signed up with the ACA--already happened. Make it harder to sign up for the ACA. They have already cut the tax credits that are helping people that are in the ACA get resources to help with their healthcare costs. They are going after these things. Here is one that you know really well.…”