Alex Wagner

offering a deal on extending ACA subsidies and and the government opens, reopens and everybody tries to take credit.

I mean, I feel like the fact that the White House is making overtures towards, you know, how much the president cares about health care by negotiating with Pfizer or whatever, you know, these sort of fig leaves that they're offering to the American public as rejoinders to the contention that the White House is populated by cruel people who don't care about Americans.

and their health care.

That's a testament to they know this is an issue that they could lose on.

So maybe there's some deal to be made there.

But I mean, I don't think that this is going to reframe.

You know, I think an important part of this, if you're in the legislative branch, is an assurance that the shit you pass in Congress doesn't just get overridden by the president.

And they're trying to stop that process from happening again.

The rescission nonsense.

Because, like, what's the point of Congress if the president can just be like, yeah, you know what?

Never mind.

Whatever you did, that doesn't count.

I don't think that's going to get solved in this.

I just have a very hard time that Trump or the Republicans are going to accede to that demand at all in any way.

But I mean, I'm hopeful.

I'm hopeful that that that that.

Some kind of semi sanity and mutual vested interest in this can lead to some movement on the ACA and everybody can just agree that they're going to take credit for it and pretend like it was their handiwork and that it's, you know, the Democrats get something meaningful and good out of it and don't.

harm the party in the process and maybe are emboldened to take big moves.

The next time there's an important fight, I guess that's my hope.

That's my hope.