The Adam Mockler Show - MAGA Mike BLOWS UP trump's Plan... it ENDS BADLY

Starting point is 00:00:00 The government has only been open for about two weeks, and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, just had to deliver some tough news to Donald Trump's face that Republicans in the House and in the Senate don't have an appetite to help the American people regarding health care. Now, remember, the one condition that the government was reopened on is that Republicans would at least put the Affordable Care Act subsidies up for a vote in December. And they're going to, but it's very, very obvious what they're going to vote. All of the Republicans are going to vote no on an extension of the subsidies.

Starting point is 00:00:33 Let me just remind you, this is not some new package or a new proposal or crazy proposal that Democrats want. It is an extension of the status quo health insurance that Americans have access to. Republicans are trying to shoot that down and make health care more expensive for tens of millions of Americans. Now, on CNN just yesterday, they did a segment, they did an announcement of breaking news announcement. that the White House was soon going to put forth a health care proposal. The health care proposal that we've been waiting for for a decade, Trump has said two weeks, it's coming in two weeks, in two weeks, and finally, as they're announcing it, I'm not even joking, as they're announcing it in this clip, they then go, wait a minute, it has just been officially delayed.

Starting point is 00:01:21 Watch this, and then we'll talk about Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's role. But watch the CNN clip. We're learning President Trump is planning to unveil a new health. health care proposal. And at this point, we're still waiting to know exactly what's in it, but we're told it could include a temporary extension of the Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are due to expire at the end of the year. They were at the center of the government shutdown. However, the subsidies could come with some fresh guardrails that could include new income limits and a requirement that everyone pay some form of a premium. Now, we should note that

Starting point is 00:01:53 if the subsidies do expire, millions of Americans are expected to see their premiums more than double next year. Zach Cooper is joining us now. He's a professor of health policy at Yale University. Zach, thanks for being here. As I noted, we are very much still waiting for specifics here. But I'm sorry, this has actually been, sorry, Zach, we're getting breaking news while I'm talking to you. I have learned that the White House has postponed. It's inspected unveiling of this new health care proposal. It was expected to be unveiled today. We'll learn more, hopefully, about that in

Starting point is 00:02:26 in the coming moments, but... Okay, maybe we'll see it in about two weeks. Obviously, I say that in jest, but Donald Trump for the past decade has been trying over and over to remove the Affordable Care Act from the American healthcare system, to nuke it out of existence

Starting point is 00:02:42 with no backup plan, no plan for the millions, tens of millions of Americans that would be left homeless health care-wise, like not literally homeless, but homeless with health insurance. They would have no coverage whatsoever and Donald Trump has no plan.

Starting point is 00:02:58 So as they're about to announce something, we don't even know what the plan is or what it possibly could be, they backtrack on it and we just learned why. So Olivia Beaver's reports, scoop. Speaker Mike Johnson recently cautioned the White House that most House Republicans don't have an appetite for extending

Starting point is 00:03:16 enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. The message from Johnson in a phone call with administration officials came as President Trump's advisors were drafting a health care plan that extended the subsidies for two years. This further underlines how hard it will be politically to stave off sharp increases in health care costs

Starting point is 00:03:36 next year for many Americans. This will be disastrous for not only Americans, not only for vulnerable citizens of this country, but for the administration itself. This will be a political disaster. In some ways, the Democrats were trying to save the Trump admin from itself, from its own political consequences by giving Americans an extension.

Starting point is 00:03:59 Like, we were going to do Republicans a favor. The West Wing has officially postponed Donald Trump's plan to extend Obamacare. I have more to play in just one second. But also, very quickly, Speaker Johnson also reportedly told Tucker Carlson in closed door, and behind closed doors that his Nick Fuentes meeting was a big mistake, and Tucker Carlson didn't really take it well. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, had a conversation with Tucker Carlson about the former Fox News host interview with Nick Fuentes saying it was a big mistake.

Starting point is 00:04:26 I spoke briefly with Tucker about that, and I think it is a responsibility. He has a lot of listeners, and I think giving Nick Fuentes that platform is a big mistake. How did Carlson take that advice? Well, obviously, I'm not sure if he agreed with me on that. So, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has been trying to rein in, not only his caucus, which he failed to do around the Epstein votes and around this, but also conservative commentators, and it's not going too well for him, But to continue here, Johnson, 53, told Trump aides in a call that the votes weren't there for a two-year patch to the enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which more than 20 million rely on, and is expiring December 31st, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Starting point is 00:05:11 His red light came, just as the president, 79, was weighing a draft with income caps and fraud control planks, according to the journal. The paper reported that only a sliver of House Republicans would entertain any extension with abortion coverage rules and some marketplace plans, a red line for many. Here's what's happening. This administration is getting legitimately hoisted by its own partard. Democrats were trying to save the American people from health care increases. In doing so, we would have bailed out the Republican Party from a political catastrophe of their own creation. And the Republicans said, no, no, no, you are not going to help. the American people. You are not going to help us. We are going to make sure that the American

Starting point is 00:05:53 people suffer under the Trump administration. They are trying to, like, shoot themselves in the foot. And when Democrats try to replace it with a Nerf gun and say, no, no, no, use a Nerf gun when you're shooting yourself in the foot. Republicans say, no, no, no, we want to shoot ourselves with a machine gun. Now Trump is desperately scrambling to have any sort of Affordable Care Act health care extension, any sort of extension, even with some sort of guardrails, as I just read, and Republicans aren't biting. We had the chance. Republicans stopped it. As the backlash built, the White House quietly put the brakes on, postponing the rollout amid Republican pushback in Congress, Axios reported. Even after Treasury Secretary Scott Besson hinted on television

Starting point is 00:06:40 that an unveiling could come on Monday, it was supposed to come on Monday. CNN was about to announce, hey, we're getting an announcement sometime today, and then it got postponed live on air. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt then told reporters a plan was still being worked on and that no formal rollout had been set. The issues under discussion, reported Axios, include phasing in income limits on premium tax credits, eliminating $0 premium plans that Republicans claim invite fraud, and offering taxpayer-funded health savings accounts for people who downgrade the cheaper coverage, a back of the envelope estimate from the committee for a responsible federal budget put the cost at $50 billion over two years, Axios reported.

Starting point is 00:07:23 Listen, I know that $50 billion is a lot of money, like objectively, that's a lot of money, but when you put this into perspective and you look at other things that the government funds, I'm not even just talking about foreign wars. Like, you can look at how much we give to Israel, that's a good example, but I'm talking about domestically. We fund so many different things. $50 billion is honestly, it's not that hard to get. Axios reports that $50 billion would offset this. It was an awkward come down after TV chatter primed viewers for a White House health care splash that never arrived. CNN, for example, had to walk back an on-air tease for a taco branded announcement. Legitimately, Trump is always

Starting point is 00:08:10 chickening out, even on helping the American people. So here's what Donald Trump did when he got in office. He put tariffs on basically every country except for Russia and North Korea. These tariffs disproportionately hurt consumers who aren't rich. Consumers who use a larger portion of their income to buy consumer goods at the store will then therefore necessarily be using a larger portion of their income to pay taxes on tariffs. Meanwhile, the actual income tax is, Progressive. There is a progressive form of taxation in the United States, so Donald Trump gets into office and puts a regressive form of taxation in the form of a tariff. Right after that, he stops Congress from extending the health care subsidies that would have actually helped American people and helped him. And instead, he's going to face the political backlash for all of this in 2026 as he realizes that Republicans don't want to help the American people, as he doesn't want to help the American people. I'm going to leave it there. If you appreciate these videos, drop a like, subscribe. I love you all. I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.

The Adam Mockler Show - MAGA Mike BLOWS UP trump's Plan... it ENDS BADLY

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