President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday said Trump ended cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, which subsidize insurers for keeping out-of-pocket costs down for low-income individuals, to “blow up” Obamacare.
“Gonna blow that thing up,” he said in a speech at the Values Voter Summit. “Gonna blow those exchanges up, right?”
The White House on Thursday night claimed it was ending the payments, a blatant move to sabotage Obamacare, because former President Barack Obama’s administration “overstepped the legal boundaries drawn by our Constitution” by making the payments.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in August that ending CSR payments would drive up premiums for those who benefit from the subsidies by 20 percent by 2018 and 25 percent by 2020.
A question: isn’t there somewhere in either the Inaugural Oath or in the Constitution that has the phrase “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”?
Doesn’t this qualify as more than subverting the intent of the law and move into betrayal of Constitutional Duties?
That scratching noise you hear is the ads writing themselves.
Although the major traction might be on Capitol Hill.The Democrats will be hammering this in their stop-the-sabotage efforts.
Bannon’s loyalty to Trump upgraded to 1000%.
It’s just that he shows it in his own way.
The TV ad I’d like to make here would be cutting back and forth between 5 second blocks of grateful people in doctors offices, hospitals etc. and a 2 second cut of Bannon ““Gonna blow that thing up,” he said. “Gonna blow those exchanges up, right?”” Ovah and Ovah.
Might have been me, sorry.
Welcome to Trumpcare.
Higher cost - Less coverage.