Jon Favreau

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The Ezra Klein Show · Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right · 11 Oct 2025 podcast

And this isn't even something we had when we were arguing over Trump's economic bill in the summer, because those matched

Medicaid cuts very purposely were pushed to 2027. matched

Yes, there are rural hospitals closing before then that we can point to, but people weren't feeling the effects of the Medicaid cuts for a couple of years. matched

And the fact that the premium increases are going to happen, or at least gonna people are gonna know that they're gonna happen uh within weeks, I think is very helpful to making this a big fight that gets more coverage. matched

I think the vulnerability is if only they were just saying that privately. matched

But that message has has come through very clearly publicly as well. matched

I think they've gotten a little better about it since the very beginning of the shutdown. matched

I think there's less of that now. matched

But I mean, you heard me when we started the conversation. matched

I talked about like Democrats shutting the government down. matched

I don't I'm not pretending the Republicans shut the government down. matched

I do think an honest argument you can make is matched

We are not going to give our votes to fund a government. matched

that is going to jack up premiums on 20 million Americans. matched

And if you want to keep that government open without giving anyone help on premiums, you are free to change the rules in the Senate. matched

And you have the 50 plus votes that you can pass it and get rid of the filibuster and you are free to do that. matched

You run all three branches of government, go for it. matched

But we are not providing votes for that because we are fighting to make sure that people don't have healthcare premium increases. matched

You lose moral high ground if you start saying, Oh, I got blamed, you got blamed, or you know, it's their fault, it's our fault. matched

This, the Kaiser Foundation poll shows that we're winning. matched

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