we expect president biden to continue to hammer republicans over their previous proposals to make cuts to essential programs like the affordable care act and medicaid. and of course, these remarks come against the backdrop of what is an anticipated showdown over the debt ceiling in the coming months. now, the white house has been leaning into those previous or at least the gop calls to make spending cuts in their negotiations over the debt ceiling. but they haven t given concrete proposals. and in the absence of that, we re expecting president biden to talk about the impacts of some of the cuts that have come up before. again, two of those essential programs, like the affordable care act, where president biden is expected to talk about the millions of americans who could lose health care, should that go away, as well as medicaid. now, of course, we should note, the republicans haven t been actively pushing for a repeal of the affordable care act for some time. but with the president
remind people, especially of when we know that we don t have anything else from leader mck mccarthy and other republicans to consider. we have to assume that potentially the affordable care act will be back on the table. and again, people have to remember how important this program is. this impacts millions upon millions of people who rely on medicare, social security, who we lie on medicare. these are important programs to everyday working american people, and so the president is taking his case right to the american people and hopefully by sharing this message with people across virginia and across the country, then hopefully this will not be on the table, but it s certainly worth a discussion at this point. well, look, the treasury secretary, janet yellen said just monday that these extraordinary measures that they re taking to extend the debt limit will expire in early june. that means, really, the talks
supportive of lindsey graham. quote, we cannot lose the senate if at all possible, and that also jives with the fact that murdoch, in the previous filing, was uncovered to have said that she needed suzanne scott gi s also senate ection. and another revelation from this filing here is that murdoch gave jared ckushner, apparently, confidential information about biden s ads before the republican and shared debate strategy with jared kushner, who was then a senior adviser to president trump. so really, just striking revelations from this dominion filing. things you normally would not see in an actual news network. these things would normally result in investigations, internally, disciplinary action, but at fox, it was coming from the highest-ranking executives. and it seems that the
power to do so. well, i don t think at all it was giving people false hope. what we saw the president do with the power of the pen through executive authority was to grant relief to millions of people across this country. millions of people automatically qualified. millions of people applied for this debt relief. and the president will encourage people to rely, to speak out, stay in touch with your congressional leaders, because we have to remember this relief will impact people mostly who are already working, who make less than $75,000 a year. this relief will impact independents, republicans, democrats across the board. so it would be great if congress would join in making sure that this relief stays in play. so we just encourage people to please reach out to your congressional leaders and remind them how important this is to everyday working people across
see president biden leaning in today in his remarks, as he tries to further the theme of the state of the union, that he s going to finish the job. but also, as he emphasizes the importance of affordable health care. abby? all right. priscilla alvarez, thanks for all of that reporting. with me now is keisha lance bottoms, she s the senior adviser to president biden for public engagement. thank you very much for joining us. tell us a little bit, what are we expecting to hear from the president in virginia today? well, what the president will remind people, abby, is what s at stake if the affordable care act is put back on the chopping block. what we re potentially facing, more than 100 million people with preexisting health conditions, having their coverage cut. tens of millions of people could see their precipitation drug coverage cut back. 40 million people with health insurance in this country today potentially could see that go away. over 7 million seniors and