Rep. Hoyer Discusses TrumpCare on CNN, MSNBC

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., issued the following news release:

House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer and MSNBC's Chris Jansing to discuss the failure of both the Senate TrumpCare bill and their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Below are excerpts from the interviews and a link to the videos:

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On CNN with Wolf Blitzer:

"The only responsible policy for the President and for our Republican colleagues to pursue is to work with us to make sure that the ACA works, and if they at some point in time get the vote to replace it, that's one thing, but to leave Americans vulnerable... 18 million people, according to CBO, will lose their insurance next year in 2018, and 32 million people will be uninsured in addition to what are uninsured now in 2026. So, [sabotaging the ACA is] an irresponsible proposal that the President has made or thought that he's made. What he promised the American people was insurance for everybody at a lower cost and better quality. His party controls the House. It controls the Senate. And it controls the Presidency. If it fails to deliver that, then the American people ought hold them accountable."

On MSNBC with Chris Jansing:

"First of all, it's absurd on its face to blame Democrats. [Republicans] control the House, they control the Senate, and they control the Presidency and they've provided for a process whereby only Republicans had to vote for their bill. And they can't get their own party to support it. It's just absurd to blame Democrats. Republicans are wholly responsible for the position we find ourselves in today. And then the President saying that he's going to allow ObamaCare to fail, first of all, ObamaCare, the Affordable Care Act is not failing, it's succeeding, and millions and millions of people are being advantaged by that."

"...They don't have the votes. So what we need to do is come together in a bipartisan way to make sure the Republicans have what the President told them he was going to get them. The bills he's supported have done nothing of the sort he said. He said he was going to have everybody have insurance. It was going to be cheaper and higher quality. The CBO says none of the bills the President supported will do that. And in that point of fact, one of the bills he cheered when it passed the House, he now calls mean. I would suggest they go from mean, meaner, to now meanest when he says he wants the Affordable Care Act by his negligence, by the Administration's negligence, to fail."

"We're prepared to [improve the Affordable Care Act], and the American public are demanding it, I hope our colleagues work with us to accomplish that objective on behalf of the American people."