Mr. Webster Jefferson, do you think what's happening in health care with people losing their insurance is a bigger crisis than the Trump administration? For example, illegally empowering folks or otherwise not following laws that were passed by crime? The Democratic alternative in terms of keeping the government funded as well as addressing the Republican health care crisis also has guardrails in it to make sure that if we reach a bipartisan agreement, House Democrats, Senate Democrats, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, on a spending bill that's signed into law by the president, that, that the policies contained in that spending bill are actually implemented by the administration. And that, of course, will remain an important topic of conversation and discussion. But we have made clear this health care crisis is devastating people across the country. (14:29–14:57)
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