Political Quotes

“as the House continues to rush through its plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, I just want to point out once again how different this bill is from what the President has promised. For a while now, I have spoken about how the President talks like a populist and promises one thing but governs from the hard right, delivering something entirely different. President Trump talked tough on Wall Street but appointed Wall Street insiders to his administration and started to try to roll back Wall Street reform. He said he would stick up for working people, but just about an hour after his inaugural address where he said that, one of his first actions as President made it harder for average families to afford a mortgage. The President plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and that is the most recent and most glaring example of this trend where the President speaks one way and does another. There is a stunning gap between how the President talks about healthcare and what his bill TrumpCare would do. The bold promises of better care for everyone at lower costs come from an alternative reality to his legislation, which studies show will cover fewer people at higher costs--higher costs, less care. Like much of his administration thus far, TrumpCare is another game of say one thing, do another: Say you will protect the working people of America and then go forward in ways that hurt them and hurt them severely.…”