‘If we can’t trust Paulsen, Lewis, and their Republican accomplices to tell us the truth about what they’re voting on, how can we possibly trust them to put us first?’
Jason Lewis and Erik Paulsen like to claim that their votes for the American Health Care Act didn’t gut protections for pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately for the embattled Republicans, the facts tell a different story. As Lewis and Paulsen double down on their disastrous plan, Republicans like Jim Hagedorn and Pete Stauber are joining them in enthusiastically endorsing the bill their party forced through the House last year.
Responding to Republicans’ health care lies, the DFL released the following statement:
“Erik Paulsen, Jason Lewis, and their Congressional Republican allies have completely undermined our health care system by voting to raise costs and strip care from millions of Americans. Instead of owning up to their heartless health care plan, Republicans have resorted to lying to their constituents about the most basic facts.”
“Republicans have gone to shocking lengths to justify a plan that would raise costs, create an ‘age tax’ on older Americans, and make health care inaccessible for hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans with pre-existing conditions like asthma, cancer, and diabetes.“It has become painfully clear that Minnesota Republicans are more concerned with pleasing special interests than protecting the constituents they were sent to Congress to represent. If we can’t trust Paulsen, Lewis, and their Republican accomplices to tell us the truth about what they’re voting on, how can we possibly trust them to put us first?”