An infuriated Rep. Mike Lawler left a closed-door House Republican meeting Tuesday and sounded off on GOP leaders who are planning to allow key Obamacare subsidies to expire in two weeks.
“This is absolute bullshit,” the New York Republican said.
“I think it’s idiotic not to have an up-or-down vote on this issue,” he told reporters of leaders’ refusal to hold a vote on a modified version of the expiring subsidies. “It is political malpractice.”
Lawler also laid into House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, arguing that Democrats don’t actually want to compromise on the issue and instead want to use health care as a political cudgel against the…
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