Rep. Gregory Meeks

It looks like it.

I mean, Democrats have been trying to ring the alarm for a long period of time.

And almost for the last 15 years, the Republicans have said that they had an alternative plan, yet no one has seen them produce anything.

And this is something that should have been talked about.

We've been advocating for it.

We've been talking about an extension, if nothing else, to the Tax Credit for the Affordable Care Act.

so that it can be figured out and we'll have more time.

Republicans have refused to do that.

So it just seems that they, as we've been saying all along, are in complete disarray.

And as a result, it's going to hurt millions of American citizens when they see their health care, some of them will double.

And this is what we were talking about before, and now it's going to become reality.

I mean, the American people, as we saw when the president was in Pennsylvania just recently, talking about this is a Democratic hoax, and everyone that was spoken with when they left said, this is not a hoax, because they know what their pockets feel like, and they know what their insurance plans are looking like, so that they will soon have to make a choice, many of them, of whether they continue healthcare or not, because they may not be able to afford it.

And so the crisis is here now that's caused by the President of the United States, and unfortunately the President is also the de facto Speaker of the House.

So the Deputy Speaker follows the Speaker, who happens to be the President, and nothing has been done, and nothing has been at least talked about for an agreement in a bipartisan way.

And so now we're on a cliff, no conversation, and guess what?

January 30th is not that far behind also.

Well, I haven't seen it.

I would have to see it.

I know there's something that they're trying to put together at the last second.

You know, I think that, again, here we should have had the opportunity to have a dialogue and a conversation, a negotiation, as opposed to what's taking place right now.