Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned of “profoundly critical penalties” if former President Trump wins the upcoming election.
Warren, in an op-ed published Saturday in The New York Occasions, criticized Trump for his non-answer to a question about repealing the Reasonably priced Care Act throughout this week’s presidential debate.
“After ducking and weaving, he got here up with: ‘I’ve ideas of a plan.’ Uh, that’s not a plan,” Warren wrote.
The Massachusetts senator stated plans are essential as a result of they take a look at concepts and the folks advancing them. Plans reveal what, and who, candidates care about, she argued.
“And in a presidential race, if both celebration’s nominee is requested about his or her plans for one thing as elementary as well being care, voters ought to get a straight reply,” Warren wrote.
Warren stated Trump’s well being care plan has been “on full show for years.” She detailed how in 2017 Republicans tried to repeal the Reasonably priced Care Act and Trump hosted a celebration on the White Home to have fun. She stated she, then-Senator Harris and different Senate Democrats fearful as they voted and “felt the load of individuals’s lives on the road.”
She argued that voters have determined they like what advantages the Reasonably priced Care Act has given them, and that may be seen via the GOP’s losses in 2018 and 2020. Republican lawmakers know this and have “since smartened up” however Trump has not, Warren stated.
“He appears to appreciate that his health-care plans are deeply unpopular, so he merely doesn’t discuss them,” she wrote.
Warren famous that it is affordable for voters to need to know candidates’ coverage stances and plans. It’s why Vice President Harris was pressed on her points and recently released coverage stances on her web site, Warren argued, including that Trump must also be held to that very same expectation.
“As Ms. Harris has identified, Mr. Trump just isn’t a critical man, and ‘ideas of a plan’ is a foolish dodge. However, as she additionally famous, a Trump presidency would have profoundly critical penalties — together with life-or-death outcomes for thousands and thousands of people that might lose entry to well being care.”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign for remark.
