this bill was a massive tax cut. we know there is a big tax cut, eviscerating medicaid, including in states where donald trump won. even on his budget, cutting pbs, cutting funding for sesame street and meals on wheels. is there a point in which you, as leader of the democrats in the house noticed donald trump himself shift to this agenda? when did that agenda become paul ryan s agenda? it s always been paul ryan s agenda, if you look at the ryan budget of the last couple of congresses before and now, you will see that the agenda when did donald trump sign on to that? i think when he decided to become the nominee of the party. he bought into the deconstruction of government, the radical right wing agenda. i don t even know if donald trump will go as far as the republicans in congress. people say, well, how long will it take for the republicans in congress to say enough, donald trump. i said, don t wait for that. because their agenda is very similar to his. if you look at thei
amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don t know who those people are going to be. and we re seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. it was great. thank you very much, thank you. they re still chewing through what that means. i m watching health policy wonks work this out in realtime. here s what i think is an interesting idea, right? you have populist nationalism on this roster up there today, on the dais. that was full bannon. it sounds different than ryanism and pencism. the question is do you get that rhetoric and get basically the paul ryan/mike pence agenda? that s what i m afraid of. people has said he s going to block it, he promised not to touch medicare and medicaid, social security. the ryan budget is very different. but i have just a feeling that when they start selling him on it h
this rostrum up there today, on the dais. that was full bannon. it sounds different than ryanism and pencism. the question is do you get that rhetoric and get basically the paul ryan/mike pence agenda? that s what i m afraid of. people has said he s going to block it, he promised not to touch medicare and medicaid, social security. the ryan budget is very different. but i have just a feeling that when they start selling him on it he ll try to sell it to his people as this is a bigger better bolder version of medicaid, this is better for you. i m saving it, it was the worst, obama ruined. it or say we re not privatizing medicare when you re privatizing medicare. exactly. say you re divesting yourself or turning your businesses over, you don t turn them over. right. it s easier to do that when you re talking about your business than when you re talking about somebody else s medicare. right. because you don t get it. the opportunity here for
satisfied with it as is or is there tinkering you would do with obamacare? any initiative, social security, medicare, medicaid, you always come back and say, in the implementation, what can you learn from, what can you do? american people have to know in overturning the affordable care act, the republicans will do very serious damage to medicare, very serious to medicare. exactly simultaneous with the ryan budget which would remove remove the guarantee to medicare. so the affordable care act medicare and medicaid which meet the needs not only of the 20 million-some people who have access who didn t have it before, but the majority of the american people who get their benefits in the workplace. again, you mentioned no pre-existing condition. everybody loves that one. lifetime limits. no, new york yo, you cannot hav we didn t have it before without premiums skyrocketing unless you have a bigger pool of people and that s why we have the republican idea of a mandate to
preexisting condition for the rest of his life. repeal of the affordable care act is a problem. lifetime limits is a problem. if you re a senior, almost half of medicaid is about long term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. you go along with this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget, that says we re going to voucherize medicare, we re going to block grant medicaid. so this has a tremendous assault on the health and health security and the financial security that goes with what the affordable care act has done for the american people. and so make america sick again, is that the republicans want to do? i certainly hope not. hopefully we can work together to find a path to address some of the concerns they may have, but not to undermine this pillar