Throughout a city corridor on CNN on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said {that a} one-year extension of healthcare subsidies to finish the federal government shutdown is “laughable, as a result of it’s cynical.” And “as a member of the get together, we put negotiations within the arms of our get together’s management, with Hakeem Jeffries. He says it’s no, it’s no.”
Host Kaitlan Collins requested, “Over within the Home, there are 14 Home Republicans who’ve stated that they are going to signal on and they’re going to vote for a one-year extension of the subsidies. Home Minority Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has stated he thought that proposal was laughable. Do you assume that’s laughable, or is that one thing you possibly can get behind?”
Ocasio-Cortez answered, “[L]et me let you know why it’s laughable, as a result of it’s cynical. Republicans wish to signal on to only a one little further 12 months of those ACA subsidies. You wish to know why? What’s taking place subsequent 12 months? The midterm elections. They wish to lengthen these subsidies only a 12 months further so that folks don’t understand the dupe that they’re pulling on everybody, in order that they’ll all re-elect themselves and permit these issues to run out the second that they win re-election. And it’s time to get politics out of what must be a assured, common proper in america of America, and that’s well being care. And so I cannot settle for a measly one-year extension of the ACA. We want to verify — and, as a member of the get together, we put negotiations within the arms of our get together’s management, with Hakeem Jeffries. He says it’s no, it’s no. And we’ve to be sure that we’re increasing and persevering with the struggle and never permitting — not falling for the effective print, not falling for the methods, and never falling for the politics round this.”
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