Reporter in the oval office this morning, President Trump declared obamacare is on its last leg. Obamacare is virtually dead. Reporter just five days ago, he cut off 7 billion in subsidies that help lowerincome americans. People who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help paying for their coverage. Americans like nevada retiree marcy shelton. I am not a deadbeat. I pay my bills. Ive worked hard all of my life. This is what i was told, that this was going to be there for me. Reporter 6 million americans benefit from these subsidies, nearly 70 of them live in states that voted for trump. But the president today described the payments as a handout to Insurance Companies. This is money that goes to the Insurance Companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices and theyve had a record run. Reporter but just minutes later, he seemed to back a new bipartisan deal to restore those same payments. The solution will be for about a year or two years and it will ge
I want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. Weve been hearing from lawmakers. To my ears, i dont hear any break in this gridlock. Whats your take at this hour . Reporter yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who youre talking to. Im outside a meeting thats been going on Susan Collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like theres been progress. Lindsey gram just left. Hes been probably the sagelemost key negotiator. He sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime
optimism their close to turning a corner. The work will continue at least until tomorrow. Just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this shortterm threeweek deal. So the question is why would democrats go for this deal when they Wouldnt
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