came not from washington, but from republican governors across the country who refuse to participate in the medicaid expansion. medicaid is a failed program. to expand this program is not unlike adding 1,000 people to the titanic. in their efforts to block the medicaid expansion, republicans have been remarkably successful. 23 states, almost all republican governors, are refusing to expand the program. denying health insurance to almost 5 million people who desperately need it. people who say the republican party doesn t have a poverty agenda are wrong. they have a very clear, concrete three-pronged agenda to deny people in desperate straits the help they need. to take way unemployment insurance for people looking for work. to take food out of the mouths of people who are hungry. and to deny poor and sick people health care. that is the republican party s poverty agenda.
medicaid expansion, republicans have been remarkably successful. 23 states, almost all republican governors, are refusing to expand the program. denying health insurance to almost 5 million people who desperately need it. people who say the republican party doesn t have a poverty agenda are wrong. they have a very clear, concrete three-pronged agenda to deny people in desperate straits the help they need. to take way unemployment insurance for people looking for work. to take food out of the mouths of people who are hungry. and to deny poor and sick people health care. that is the republican party s poverty agenda. making more people poor. joining me now is congressman dan kildee, congressman from michigan. from your perch in flint, michigan, a state that suffered through very extended rates of unemployment, a city that s had a rough time, how does this look to you? well, it s just a shame. unemployment extension is a difference between people being
came not from washington, but from republican governors across the country who refuse to participate in the medicaid expansion. medicaid is a failed program. to expand this program is not unlike adding 1,000 people to the titanic. in their earfforts to block e medicaid expansion, republicans have been remarkly successful. 23 states, almost all republican governors, are refusing to expand the program. denying health insurance to almost 5 million people who desperately need it. people who say the republican party doesn t have a poverty agenda are wrong. they have a very clear, concrete three-pronged agenda to deny people in desperate straits the help they need. to take way unemployment insurance for people looking for work. to take food out of the mouths of people who are hungry. and to deny poor and sick people health care. that is the republican party s poverty agenda.