Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)

The end of December, obviously, open enrollment starts November 1st over in the House.

There are 14 House Republicans who have said that they will sign on and they will vote for a one year extension of the subsidies.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he thought that proposal was laughable.

Do you think that's laughable, or is that something you could get behind?

Yeah, no, let me tell you why it's laughable.

Because it's cynical.

Republicans want to sign on to just a one little extra year of these ACA subsidies.

You want to know why?

What's happening next year?

Midterm elections.

They want to extend these subsidies just a year extra so that people don't realize the dupe that they are pulling on everyone.

so that they can all re-elect themselves and allow those things to expire the moment that they win re-election.

And it is time to get politics out of what should be a guaranteed universal right in the United States of America, and that is healthcare.

And so I will not accept a measly one-year extension of the ACA,

We need to make sure, and as a member of the party, we put negotiations in the hands of our party's leadership with Hakeem Jeffries.

He says it's no, it's no.

And we have to make sure that we are expanding and continuing the fight and not falling for the fine print, not falling for the tricks, and not falling for the politics around this.

Do you know how many jobs have been threatened or lost due to the Trump administration's closures of clean energy projects in the last six months or so, the first half of this year?

91,000.

Trump administration and Department of Energy policies have cost Americans 91,000 jobs nationwide in rollbacks on efficiency.