Vice President Kamala Harris warned supporters Thursday that Republicans in Congress would target the Affordable Care Act if former President Donald Trump is elected in November, kicking Americans off their health insurance.
“Donald Trump still wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare – and he has a very powerful friend in Congress, the Speaker of the House, who recently, if you noticed, said that there will be a quote, ‘End to Obamacare,’” she said in Reno, Nevada.
Harris added: “The words he used were no Obamacare, which if he were to get his way, if Trump wins, means they would throw millions of Americans off the health insurance and take us back, which would take us back to when, you’ll remember, insurance companies have the ability to deny people with pre-existing conditions.”
Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju in an exclusive interview Wednesday that he opposes repealing the Affordable Care Act if Trump is reelected and Republicans control the House, arguing instead that recent comments where he said he wanted “massive reform” to the law were taken out of context.
“This has been ascribed to me. That is not what I said. You can pull a recording of the event in Pennsylvania. That’s not what I said,” he said.
The Republican speaker was referring to a video from a campaign event in Pennsylvania that showed him saying Republicans will seek “massive reform” to the legislation as part of their “very aggressive” agenda in the first hundred days of a prospective Trump administration.
When asked by one attendee, “No Obamacare?” Johnson replied, “No Obamacare.”
