Rick Scott

and in some cases tripling or quadrupling.

People can't afford that when we're already paying the highest prices in the world for healthcare.

Number two, it paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act studies show that will mean that some 50,000 Americans will die every year unnecessarily.

And all of that was done to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%.

As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election all over this country.

And what the election showed is that the American people want us to stand up to Trumpism, to his war against working class people, to his authoritarianism.

That is what the American people wanted.

But tonight, that is not what happened.

So we've got to go forward, do the best that we can to try to protect working class people, to make sure that the United States not only does not throw people off of health care, but ends the absurdity of being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people.

We have a lot of work to do.

But to be honest with you, tonight was not a good night.

Bottom line is the president of the United States.

canceled a meeting with the two leaders because of public pressure before the government shut down.

He decided to have that meeting.

He didn't invite you and others in, which for Donald Trump in and of itself is remarkable.

He just instead sent out a true social with Trump 2028 hats.

And then he went golfing that weekend before the shutdown, shortly thereafter.

He had no interest or energy into avoiding this government shutdown.

He has no interest or energy

to end it today.