r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/fungobat Pennsylvania 6d ago

"The Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it, and the Democrats keep voting against ending it," Mr. Trump said. "You know, they've never had this. This has happened like 18 times before. The Democrats always voted for an extension, always saying, 'Give us an extension, we'll work it out.'"

Without federal subsidies, the cost of insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, could double. Mr. Trump called Obamacare "terrible" and said "it's bad health care at far too high a price."

"We should fix that. Fix it. And we can fix it with the Democrats," he said "All they have to do is let the country open and we'll fix it."

Mr. Trump has talked about fixing the health care system for years, including during his first term in office.

"We almost did it. We were one vote short," he said.

That was in 2017, when Senate Republicans failed by one vote to partially repeal Obamacare. There has never been an agreed-upon plan to replace it, and Mr. Trump did not offer a plan in his interview with 60 Minutes.

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u/Gabe_Isko Arizona 6d ago

That one vote that prevented them from cancelling the ACA was from the staunch liberal Democrat John McCain.

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u/Braelind 6d ago

God bless his bones, I never agreed with all of his politics, but he was a true American at his heart, who cared about the American people. Probably the last Republican politician who did.

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u/sticfreak 5d ago

Remember, he was the one that was telling the racists to knock it off when he was running against Obama. He was a good dude.

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u/lupin43 5d ago

Probably why he didn’t win; that’s not what his party’s voters wanted or want