On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius argued that the need to subsidize people buying health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace doesn’t show the system doesn’t work because
During an interview with former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that took place on Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” host Garrett Haake said that the need to subsidize health insurance is an indicator that the
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Washington Week,” Punchbowl News Senior Congressional Reporter Andrew Desiderio said that Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) “was not going to be part of the solution” on the government shutdown because “For his sort of political
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Washington Week,” Punchbowl News Senior Congressional Reporter Andrew Desiderio stated that “so many” Democrats “felt like there was so much pressure from the left, from progressives, to hold the line” that they voted against ending the government
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) stated that inflation has increased since the “Liberation Day” tariffs partially due to uncertainty about trade agreements as people waited to see what happened. Host Blake Burman said
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that, even though they did not get the policy concessions that they wanted from it, the Democrats got a win of sorts out of the government shutdown, because “I
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) argued that “the American people lost” the government shutdown, because Republicans decided “they’d rather shut the government down” than make health policy changes. Co-host John Berman
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the Democratic socialism pushed by New York City Mayor-Elect Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) doesn’t actually
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Gen Z has embraced and “Democrats are thinking of following” socialism that has brought ruin in places like Venezuela and mocked the idea that
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Democrats only provide bureaucracy and failed execution of their plans and said that affordability is worse in areas run by Democrats. While speaking to CNN host and Washington
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) stated that Democrats “didn’t get it wrong” by having a sunset provision for the Obamacare subsidies, but “The idea that we should have extended it for even longer is
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Joseph Lavorgna, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, stated that the 50-year mortgage proposal didn’t come from the Treasury Department and is “probably not an optimal approach.” Host Blake Burman
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) stated that he voted against the bill to end the government shutdown because people in his state who were losing SNAP benefits “Absolutely” would be happy that he was
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says data from blue states is “going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that… they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter said that the controversy over the BBC’s edit of a speech by President Donald Trump shows how some institutions “are held to a very high standard,
On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) said that “because of the shutdown and the attention on this issue,” Republicans will be the ones people blame if health insurance premiums spike. Stanton said, “[T]he challenge with what
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that Democrats were testing the red line Republicans had drawn with the government shutdown, and while they were doing so, “air traffic control was getting chaotic and even
On Wednesday’s edition of CBS’s “The Takeout,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said that it is true that Obamacare tax credits help insurance companies, but “That’s because health care is too expensive across the board,” and it’s “a dumb argument” to
On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) stated that “by shutting the government down, we were able to focus on and get everybody else focused on the unaffordability of health care across this country.”
During an interview with CBS News on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to questions on whether the government shutdown was worth it by arguing that the shutdown was the fault of Republicans and “Fighting for the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) responded to a question on whether the government shutdown was worth it by saying that “Standing up for the American people is absolutely worth it.” But
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. and Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said that the deal to end the government shutdown “is unacceptable”, there was “no justification” for keeping the shutdown going, and for Democrats “to kind of back away
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said that there were more than eight Democrats in the Senate who wanted to join with Senate Republicans and vote to end the government shutdown and would have
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said the fact that “eight Democratic senators could have ended” the government shutdown “undermines the narrative that this was a Trump shutdown” and “We should have kept the pressure
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter stated that the BBC’s editing of President Donald Trump’s speech in a documentary was “a big journalistic screw-up, but in a very small, narrow way, because it was one small
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Late Show,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that “when it comes to the Affordable Care Act, making health care not only accessible for everybody, but affordable by everybody, that we did not get” out of
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump discussed H-1B visas and said that bringing in large numbers of foreign workers will harm the wages of
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump responded to concerns about elevated coffee prices by stating that we’ll lower some of the tariffs so “We’re
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) said that he has gotten calls from people who are glad the government shutdown is coming to an end because they were “worried about their air travel. And God
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stated that “there’s a lot of disappointment as it relates to what those seven or eight Senate Democrats decided to do. I am thankful for what
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Story Is,” CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent and host Manu Raju said that there are Democrats in the Senate that are glad that the eight Senate Democrats who broke ranks and voted with Senate Republicans to
During a portion of an interview with NPR aired on Monday’s broadcast of “All Things Considered,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at issue in the government shutdown are not being taken away
During an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio on Monday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) responded to a question on what Democrats got out of the government shutdown deal by saying, “one of the things I think we did during the shutdown
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) argued that the need for additional subsidies doesn’t prove that the Affordable Care Act is a failure and stated that there is work to be
During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump said that he isn’t worried that his criticism of air traffic controllers who haven’t worked during the government shutdown because
During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump responded to a question on concerns about the economy from voters by saying that “More than anything else, it’s a
During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump argued that the 50-year mortgage isn’t a big deal and “It might help a little bit.” Host Laura Ingraham asked,
During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump defended having students from foreign countries, including China, in American universities by saying that “it’s good to have outside countries.”
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Washington Week,” Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said that, with the government shutdown, Democrats are engaging in an effort “to try to make a point, the point that they’re trying to make is through causing pain for the
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) discussed the Golden Dome missile defense system proposed by President Donald Trump and said that he does not object to the idea of a
