00:00And what the election showed is that the American people want us to stand up to Trumpism.
00:05This was a very, very bad vote.
00:09Tonight was not a good night.
00:11Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution.
00:18And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.
00:24What it does, first of all, is it raises health care premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling,
00:34and in some cases tripling or quadrupling.
00:36People can't afford that when we are already paying the highest prices in the world for health care.
00:41Number two, it paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act studies show
00:48that will mean that some 50,000 Americans will die every year unnecessarily.
00:53And all of that was done to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%.
01:01As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election all over this country.
01:06And what the election showed is that the American people want us to stand up to Trumpism,
01:12to his war against working class people, to his authoritarianism.
01:16That is what the American people wanted.
01:18But tonight, that is not what happened.
01:22So we've got to go forward, do the best that we can to try to protect working class people,
01:27to make sure that the United States not only does not throw people off of health care,
01:33but ends the absurdity of being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people.
01:39We have a lot of work to do.
01:42But to be honest with you, tonight was not a good night.
01:45Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution.
01:52And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.
01:58What it does, first of all, is it raises health care premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling,
02:07and in some cases tripling or quadrupling.
02:10People can't afford that when we are already paying the highest prices in the world for health care.
02:15Number two, it paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid,
02:20and the Affordable Care Act studies show that will mean that some 50,000 Americans will die every year unnecessarily.
02:27And all of that was done to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%.
02:34As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election all over this country.
02:39And what the election showed is that the American people want us to stand up to Trumpism,
02:45to his war against working class people, to his authoritarianism.
02:49That is what the American people wanted.
02:51But tonight, that is not what happened.
02:55So we've got to go forward, do the best that we can to try to protect working class people,
03:00to make sure that the United States not only does not throw people off of health care,
03:06but ends the absurdity of being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people.
03:13We've got a lot of work to do.
03:15But to be honest with you, tonight was not a good night.
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