Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus made hay of a remark by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday, in which the top Obama health official brushed off Republicans who were calling for her resignation by saying she didn’t “work” for them.
“The majority of people calling for me to resign, I would say, are people who I don’t work for, and who do not want this program to work in the first place,” Sebelius said Thursday during a press conference at a call center in Phoenix, Ariz.
Priebus pointed to the quote as one more reason for her resignation, in addition to a disastrous rollout of the federal health exchange website HealthCare.gov.
“It is amazing that the Obama Administration doesn’t understand that their bosses are the American people,” Priebus said in a statement. “Maybe that is why the administration continues to push this train wreck of a healthcare law and refused to heed years of warning signs that ObamaCare was the wrong prescription to fix America’s healthcare problems. It’s time for President Obama to do what he should have done weeks ago and fire Secretary Sebelius.”
