Oh, no! Was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) kidnapped by “Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police?” Because when it comes to Republicans’ views on health care, Marge has gone cold.
So much so that amid a government shutdown — in which the main crux of the issue is that Democrats want to extend health care premium subsidies for many Affordable Care Act recipients and Republicans don’t — the Georgia lawmaker is very vocally siding with the left.
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Earlier this week, Greene said she is “absolutely disgusted” with potential health care cost hikes. And on Thursday, Greene went on CNN and said her constituents have been “telling us stories about how they’re already paying $2,000 a month with $10,000 deductibles. I’m getting phone calls from people that are saying, if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren’t going to be able to have health insurance.”
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Greene is peddling the left’s messaging so well that even one Democratic senator had to admit that she’s doing a better job at it than some Democrats.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s “The Source,” host Kaitlan Collins interviewed Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and played a snippet of Greene’s appearance on the network.
Collins then noted a recent tweet published by messaging strategist John Anzalone about Greene.
“Wow. When MTG does economic messaging better than Democrats we should take notice,” Anzalone wrote Thursday.
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Collins then decided to ask that very same question of Gallego.
“Is she doing messaging better than the Democrats are on this issue?” Collins asked.
“Well, she’s not doing better than me, but she’s definitely doing it better than a lot of Democrats,” Gallego responded, though he didn’t name names. “Marjorie Taylor Greene is right right now. The Republican Party is absolutely, you know, essentially screwing their voters and a lot of their voter base.”
Not all Dems are failing on communicating how dire the issue is — despite one very unfortunate cat-themed explainer put out by the Democratic Party.
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Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) got pretty fiery while speaking to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about rumors that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) shut down the government to appease more progressive people in the party, like her.
“Well if that’s the case,” Ocasio-Cortez said firmly into the camera, referring to some of her Republican colleagues, “my office is open, and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.”
“Because what I’m not going to do,” Ocasio-Cortez continued as Hayes giggled beside her, “is tolerate 4 million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure kids are dying because they don’t have access to insurance.”
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