Democrats See Political Opening in GOP Budget

“In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and Oklahoma by focusing narrowly on a single issue: Republican efforts to overturn a popular health care program, the Affordable Care Act,” the New York Times reports.

“Now, as Republicans push a budget resolution through Congress that will almost certainly require some kind of cuts to Medicaid to finance a huge tax reduction, Democrats see an opening to use the same strategy.”

Said Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM): “I don’t know why Republicans are doubling down on the same playbook.”