Political Quotes

“I just want to address the cynical effort by the Republicans to link the Trump shutdown to Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The fact of the matter is, if the Republicans cared about children's health insurance or anybody's health insurance: They wouldn't have tried repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They wouldn't have put the provision in their tax scam that says that people don't have to buy insurance, which we estimate will result in about 13 million Americans losing their health insurance. They wouldn't have put a CHIP bill on the floor earlier this month, or earlier this year, that basically eliminated or cut back on the prevention fund and, at the same time, said, if you didn't pay your health insurance within the first 30 days, you would lose it, which the CBO says would cause another half a million people to lose their health insurance. If you care about children's health insurance, which you clearly don't, then you don't want to eliminate and cut back on health insurance for the American people in general, which is what you are doing by sabotaging the Affordable Care Act every day. The only reason why you linked the CHIP bill to the CR this week is because you don't have to pay the subsidies for people's health insurance because they are going to lose it. ____________________”