EMILY’s List Responds to CBO Score of Trump’s Threats to ‘Let Obamacare Implode’

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- EMILY's List issued the following statement:

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Today, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its report on the impact of freezing key payments that help lower out-of-pocket costs for those insured through the marketplace​, which Donald Trump has threatened to halt. In response, Emily Cain, executive director of EMILY's List, released the following statement:

"The Congressional Budget Office didn't mince words: if acted on, Donald Trump's repeated threats to 'let Obamacare implode' would increase premiums by twenty percent, hurting millions of Americans in the process. Does the president care? Apparently not. Trump would rather let countless women and families suffer than work to strengthen our nation's health care system."

"In this time of turmoil, with a White House in disarray and a president more interested in re-tweeting alt-right conspiracy theorists than helping Americans, people are looking for leadership. But Republicans like Dean Heller and Jeff Flake let Donald Trump do whatever he wants - betraying the people they were elected to represent. Nevadans and Arizonans deserve true leaders, not so-called moderates who rubber stamp the radical agenda of this out-of-control president."