Senator Kim Calls Out Trump and MAGA for the Trump Shutdown
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Republican Speaker Maga Mike Johnson just got a rude awakening and whatever staffer convinced him to go on C-SPAN and listen to what the actual people think about his conduct and behavior, well, those staffers need to get a raise. So Maga Mike Johnson was on C-SPAN and he heard how people feel about Donald Trump and his government shutdown as he and Donald Trump are ripping away the Affordable Care Act subsidies for tens of millions of Americans and how he and Donald Trump are continuing just to destroy the country and gaslight us all at the same time. So I want to show you MAGA Mike sitting there as he's being told outside of his bubble what people are really experiencing. There are a number of examples that I want to show you.
So in the first clip that you probably haven't seen anywhere else, Maga Mike is asked, I think, the most simple question. Okay, Maga Mike, how are you actually going to fix Obamacare? You all say you don't like the Affordable Care Act. You don't like the subsidies. You don't like this. You don't like that. What do you like? What is your plan? And Maga Mike won't be able to answer that. Here, play this clip.
So, and I also want to know what is y'all's plan to fix the Obamacare?
Great questions. There's a lot of improvements that are needed. Obamacare did not do what was promised. Everybody can acknowledge that. As I mentioned, premiums are up 60% since it became law in 2010. And you have less access to care, and in some parts of the country, lower quality of care. So we've got to fix that. Republicans are the party that have the ideas to do that. We have a doctor's caucus inside the Republican conference that works around the clock, putting together these ideas, talking to stakeholders and other providers around the country. We have a lot of ideas to fix it. Some people say, why can't you just rip Obamacare out at the roots and start over? It's very, very complicated. It affects about 18% of the US economy, healthcare, but there's lots of areas of improvement.
This is not a talking point for us. We've demonstrated it in the one big beautiful bill, the Working Families Tax Cuts. We added lots of provisions, for example, to reform Medicaid. It was being drained. The resources there are intended for U.S. citizens that are in a small number of categories, the disabled, the elderly, young pregnant women in difficult situations, etc. But what was happening is you had illegal aliens draining the resources who are not allowed to do it under law. And you had young, able-bodied men, for example, without dependents who were riding the wagon. We reformed that in our bill. We reduced the cost. And the Congressional Budget Office, the CBO, just analyzed in late August, August 25th, in the report, they said it's going to have the desired effect.
And again, as William Melvin noted, the Affordable Care Act became law over 5,000 days ago. Since that time, Donald Trump has not put forward a plan. Instead, Donald Trump and MAGA Mike talk about lowering prescription drug prices by 1,600%, which is not a real number. Next up, MAGA Mike Johnson hears from another C-SPAN caller, and the caller says, You know, you're out there saying that people are smiling as troops are heading into the cities. Blue states, blue cities. People aren't smiling. What are you talking about? What a dystopian and idiotic thing to even say. And this is, I think... So important for Maga Mike to just be there and hear. This is what the Midas Mighty are saying. This is what Americans are saying.
I don't understand Donald Trump's, you know, bubble and their talking points. People love this. People don't love ice ripping people off the streets and putting them into concentration camps. Here, let's play this clip.
hi um i just want to start by saying hearing you say that everyone is smiling in the in the cities where troops our national guard has been rolled into uh feels dystopian and insane to hear you say that watching uh the response to this but that's not actually my question my question i just needed to say that while hearing you talk about this my question is if republicans and democrats can agree to a one-year extension to the aca subsidies uh
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