Mark Kelly: “Americans are going to see their health care costs spike…”

“Secretary Bessant said this shutdown could end if brave moderate Democrats would stop this craziness. Let me tell you how this can end. So just in less than a week, Americans are going to see their health care costs spike dramatically, going up 100, 200, 300%. They know that. The, the president knows that. He said he wanted to do something about this, but as far as I could tell, he spent about one hour negotiating with Democrats on this issue.” (00:17–00:24)

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