Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Schumer Accuses GOP of 'War on Seniors'

 

Future Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer trotted out a new messaging attack on Donald Trump and congressional Republicans on Tuesday, accusing the GOP of "plotting a war on seniors" with its plans to repeal Obamacare and potentially privatize Medicare.

Faced with having to swallow Rep. Tom Price's (R-Ga.) nomination as Trump's secretary of health and human services, Schumer is hoping that unified Democratic opposition to privatizing health care plans for seniors can be a rallying point — as well as a political shield to save endangered Democratic senators. Senate Democrats are defending five Senate seats in deeply conservative states in 2018, but Schumer vowed that his entire caucus will oppose any effort to change the current single-payer Medicare system for seniors. 

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)

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