Senator Elizabeth Warren
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and all of it to try to bend reality to fit Donald Trump's world.
And I think that means we are in a very dangerous moment here.
You know, you're exactly right.
It's it's the watch who's getting hurt here and how much spin the Republicans in this right wing media are trying to put into this.
So, for example, you know, the Republicans pass the big, ugly bill and it's going to cut health care for 15 million Americans.
You know, about half of all the babies born in the United States and their mamas, about half of all the people who are in nursing homes right now, most of the people who have serious disabilities, like your neighbor who has to use a wheelchair to get around or who has a home health aide so that she can still live at home, cutting health care for those folks and at the same time,
driving up the cost of health insurance for everybody who's got private insurance, for everybody who gets their insurance through their employers, and now triggering cuts in Medicare.
So you really want to say for all those people who cheered on the Republicans yesterday,
did you really not notice that they're driving up your costs directly for healthcare?
That you are the one who will pay more, or let's put it another way, when they increase these costs, a lot of hospitals are gonna have to close, particularly rural hospitals are gonna have to close, because they can't do the uncompensated care.
When people still show up in their emergency rooms, they take care of them.
And they've got no money to cover their costs.
And when those hospitals close, they don't just close for Democrats.
They don't just close for liberals.
They close for everybody.
And that means they close for you and they close for your family.
And so that's why I think when you make the point about how dangerous this is,
It's dangerous because it divides the world in a way that this alternative reality means these are people who don't hold Donald Trump and the Republicans accountable for the things that they are actually doing to the people who are part of that echo chamber.
You know, I got to stick one in here the other day.
Did you see that just a couple of days ago, Donald Trump called the CEO of Goldman Sachs and told him to fire the economic analyst for Goldman Sachs because the guy had said that Trump's tariff policy, his on off again with tariffs, was really creating problems for the economy.