Republican Senator: Health Plan Not What Trump ‘Promised’
Lousiana Republican Bill Cassidy said Tuesday that the Republican Obamacare replacement bill does not reflect the promises Donald Trump made during the campaign.
“That’s not what President Trump promised,” Cassidy said on CNN Tuesday. “That’s not what Republicans ran on.”
Senator Cassidy also said that he is concerned that the Trump administration is attempting to discredit the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
“You have to have an umpire, even if the umpire occasionally gets it wrong, because otherwise you are only accepting analysis by people with motivations that define certain answers, and so I am very reluctant to disregard what the CBO score is,” Cassidy said.
The Congressional Budget Office report found that 24 million people will lose their health insurance by 2026 if the Republican plan becomes law.
