Senator Tammy Baldwin
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And if we allow, and we just can't allow these premium tax credits to expire at the end of the year, but it would just make it even worse.
You would get it so dysfunctional that it's hard to put it back together again.
There are so many important reforms that we ought to be addressing, but fixing the
chaos and damage that has put our healthcare system in crisis just in the first months of President Trump's second presidency.
We've got to fix those things first.
Well, first of all, just still anger at the big, ugly bill.
Remember, fundamentally, that was a tax measure, right?
They made these cuts to programs that working people rely on in order to pay for nearly four and a half trillion dollars in tax cuts, disproportionately helping billionaires like Trump and billionaires.
profitable corporations.
And yes, in this tax bill, they couldn't even see fit to extend a tax provision that makes people's health care more affordable, not a tax cut for working people, just tax cuts for the disproportionately benefit billionaires.
And so it is so out of touch.
You know, what's so ironic is that Trump
diagnosed the problem during his election.
He ran on bringing costs down for everyone.
And then he gets into office and he has turned around and done everything he possibly could to increase costs for Americans.
It is appalling and he needs to be held accountable.
But first, we need to make sure
that these Affordable Care Act premium tax credits are continued into the future so that we don't see millions of people lose their health insurance.
And you were right when you were diagnosing the additional problems in the healthcare system.
Once you have a whole bunch of people uninsured,