Jen Psaki: The Cost of Health Care Is a ‘Huge Affordability Issue,’ Republicans Don’t Have a Clear Plan

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PSAKI: "First of all, I almost cut off the White House reporters there, which is just I was just going back to my old my old stomping grounds there. You know, I think it’s I think it wasn’t even intentional. I think it’s a clear indication, ari. I mean, these are the issues which you see in these polls. I mean, 31% approval rating on the economy is an abysmally low number for any president. And in addition to the cultural side, which I think is definitely a truth here when it comes to Trump, in terms of what people believed out there, it’s much easier to run as the opposition to run against what the sitting party that is in power is doing and say, I’m going to do it all better. It’s much harder to govern and actually do the things you’re promising to do. And the thing with Trump is that he’s not a policy guy. He’s not a guy who’s interested in the details or somebody who really gets engaged to date in really legislating and policy making. And so the things that he said he was going to do when he doesn’t deliver on them, people are going to ask questions. The health care question, which came up, and I expect they’re going to just get the more Caroline leavitt goes out there, the more they’re going to get questions on this. The clear message from the public is affordability is the issue. Affordability is not just economic data. In fact, it shouldn’t be thought of as economic data. The cost of health care is a huge affordability issue. And right now, Republicans, they don’t have a clear plan. They don’t have agreement on what the plan is. This would be a case where any normal president would engage and figure out what the plan is moving forward, because nearly three quarters of the public wants these premium tax credits to be extended, and it doesn’t seem to be what they’re doing at this point."