Ro Khanna
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And that's that's the basic fault line.
The second argument is over over health care.
This is just factual.
If the tax credits expire on the exchange, people who were paying about $7,000 on the exchange would go up to about $21,000.
I mean, you'd basically be kicking off a ton of people off the exchanges.
And Democrats just can't do that.
Now, you can say, well, you lost the election.
Then
I have no problem getting rid of the filibuster and the Republicans have the votes in the Senate and the House and the Trump and they can they can pass pass the budget.
But my my hope is that they will realize that these tax credits are worth saving, that they're not going to want people kicked off health care and they're not going to want these premiums going up high.
And that will be the deal.
First of all, it's a very small portion of people that we're talking about.
So 90% is not anything to do with those who are undocumented.
That's just the math.
Right.
I mean, so we can argue about the 10 percent.
But we have in this country something called emergency Medicaid.
What does that mean?
If you're undocumented and you show up to the hospital, we will take care of you.
I believe that is correct.