Patty Murray: “Democrats offered a clean one year extension of the tax…”

“We have Speaker Johnson bragging that Republicans strengthened health care by making the biggest cut to Medicaid in history. That's like saying you strengthened a ship by throwing the passengers overboard. And when Democrats offered a clean one year extension of the tax credit, which is truly the most straightforward and common sense thing we can do for people facing gigantic premium hikes this year. Republicans said never, ever, ever, ever. They called it, quote, political terrorism. And to really put a fine point on it, they fired up the old bad ideas machine to try and find a new way to repeal the aca.” (01:07–01:21)

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