So much for toning down the violent rhetoric. Sen. John Kennedy made an appearance on Fox’s The Story with Martha MacCallum this Friday, and was asked about the upcoming vote on Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s proposal to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for a year in return for ending the shutdown, and Kennedy made this thinly veiled threat against Schumer in response while just straight up lying about what extending those subsidies would mean for people’s insurance premiums.
MACCALLUM: What is your response to Chuck Schumer’s proposal here to keep those ACA benefits going for another year? Bipartisan committee to work on those and reopen the government with a clean CR.
KENNEDY: God, please give me patience, because if you give me strength, I’m going to need bail money. What Senator Schumer is suggesting is that we do the dumbest thing possible that won’t work. Stupid should hurt more.
Senator Schumer says we should just extend the status quo for a year. What does that mean? That means that we would have to take $35 billion of taxpayer money and give it directly to the health insurance companies without any commitment of lowering premiums.
How is that going to reduce health care costs? How’s that going to reduce premiums? The health care companies are going to take $35 billion from the taxpayers and put it into their pockets. I mean, duh!
