As key Senators announced that they had reached a bipartisan deal to stabilize the health insurance market, on another planet, Trump was standing in the Rose Garden declaring Obamacare dead.
Video of Trump declaring Obamacare dead:
"Even people they know they're going to approve, they take it right out to the end," Pres. Trump says of Democrats https://t.co/pw2p8AGHtp pic.twitter.com/DSkx3daivj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 17, 2017
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AP alert that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced his deal with Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) to stabilize the insurance market by keeping the CSR payments going:
BREAKING: Key Republican senator says he and Democratic lawmaker have reached deal on health care subsidies.
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 17, 2017
Obamacare is getting stronger, but Trump is at the White House proclaiming it virtually dead in his mind. The President Of The United States isn’t living on the same planet as the rest of us. He resides in pretend land where executive orders abolish laws, and Obamacare really is dead as long as he thinks so.
The President is so out of the loop that he probably didn’t know that the Senate was about to announce their deal, or he did know, and he is trying to bend reality to fit his fantasy demise of the ACA. Trump seems to have no idea what Congress is doing, and when he makes statements like these, Donald Trump shows that his words have no relationship with reality.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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