House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared the public option dead during a press briefing moments ago.
“We’re talking about something that’s not going to be part of the legislation,” she said.
I’m quite sad that a public option isn’t in there. But it isn’t a case of it’s not in there because the Senate is whipping against it. It’s not in there because they don’t have the votes to have it in there.
“We had it,” Pelosi said. “We wanted it. They didn’t have it. It’s not in the reconciliation.”