Tammy Baldwin slams Donald Trump’s promise to take away health care from millions

Sen. Tammy Baldwin
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Out Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) slammed Donald Trump for promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if he gets reelected and Republicans take the Senate next year.

Journalist Ben Meiselas played a clip from a recent Trump rally where the likely 2024 GOP presidential nominee said that he would repeal the 2010 healthcare law and mocked the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for voting against his attempt to repeal it when he was president. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 40 million people in the U.S. have insurance in 2023 because of the ACA, and Meiselas asked Baldwin what she thinks of Trump’s “cavalier” promise to take their health care away.

“There’s no better way to get votes than to rip people’s health care away!” Baldwin said sarcastically. “I mean, my goodness, it’s hard to fathom that they’re returning to this, especially when so many people now can get insurance that couldn’t before.”

She brought up different groups of people who could lose their insurance if the ACA were repealed, including…

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