Trump Does A Truly Awkward Dance When Grilled About 1 Shutdown Issue | EUROtoday

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President Donald Trump and allies’ failure to create a viable well being care different was crystallized in a single second on “60 Minutes” Sunday. (Watch the video under.)

Democrats are holding quick in opposition to ending the shutdown in trade for the extension of subsidies for hundreds of thousands of Affordable Care Act clients. However, in his interview, Trump labeled Obamacare “terrible.”

The president additionally referred to as the Democrats “crazed lunatics” who should vote to open the federal government first to assist “fix” the problem.

“So you’re saying your plan is to tell the Democrats to vote to end the shutdown … and that you will put forward a healthcare plan?” O’Donnell stated.

“No, we will work on fixing the bad health care that we have right now,” he replied. “We have terrible healthcare that’s too expensive for the people, not for the government, for the people.”

Trump’s evasion lends credence to repeated complaints by the normally loyal Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that Republicans are usually not serving to Americans in want.

“With all due respect, you’ve been talking about fixing the healthcare since 2015,” O’Donnell advised the president.

Trump stated Congress was one vote in need of “great health care,” referring to a failed GOP try and partially repeal Obamacare in 2017.

“But where is that plan? But where is that plan?” O’Donnell pressed.

Trump then rambled about Democrats and Biden ― however O’Donnell resumed her grilling.

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“My understanding is if those health care subsidies are not extended, premiums will double for many of the people that are on it,” she stated. “And I was looking into it, three-quarters of these people [who] will see their healthcare premiums double, live in states where you won in the last election. I mean, even here in Florida has the highest number of residents on Obamacare in the country.”

Trump, once more with out a whiff of an answer, insisted, “And I’m saying we can fix it, Norah.”

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