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Mark Kelly: “This president is refusing to negotiate a fix for this. He…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Democratic Senator Mark Kelly says President Trump is refusing to help end shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 01:37

As Congress, the Speaker, you know, the speaker needs to understand that he is the speaker of the House. Republicans also are in control of the Senate and the White House. But This president is refusing to negotiate a fix for this. He has spent a grand total of about an hour on this in the last six or seven weeks. And so along those lines, your party said this about affordable health care for Americans, that the average family plan now tops $27,000 a year and that forces workers to shoulder higher deductibles and co pays an even worse increase for ACA plan. (01:37–01:47)

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Asserts that the president has spent about an hour on healthcare negotiations in the past six or seven weeks.

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