Alex Wagner

Those people are real.

And man, it is a thankless job, especially right now, filled with peril.

So like, you know, my heart and my thoughts go out to like the reality they're living as well.

The reason-

My mother came over here is because my grandmother was offered a job with the Library of Congress.

And the US government got my family out of Burma, got my grandmother a job.

And the reason I'm on this earth in some ways is because of the federal bureaucracy and federal government work.

And that was one of the best periods of her life.

They were saved from a country that was and continues to be in the middle of chaos because of...

Government work and it was good work and it was important work and it like offered her a pension and and it just to see, you know, how those workers are treated now and like the gutting of that service is just so sad and also shameful because it's one of the things that I think has made this country great.

Well, there's nothing clean about it.

This is one of the dirtiest tricks that is being pulled on the American people right now.

Starting today, October 1st, and throughout the rest of the month, Americans across this country are going to start getting notifications that their insurance premiums are up to doubling.

So Republicans want us to rubber stamp that.

And we're saying no.

We need to stand up for the American people.

We need to stand up for our health care system.

And if they want our votes, they need to make sure that we're protecting every American and making sure that we can do what we can to continue to make health care accessible, affordable as we work to make it a human right for all.

People who do not have their papers to be here cannot access federally funded health care.

They are not eligible for Medicaid, Medicare.