Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement:
“The independent Congressional Budget Office just issued Senate Republicans another stark warning: the bill they’re voting on next week would throw our economy into chaos and disrupt health insurance for tens of millions of Americans.
“32 million Americans would be left without health coverage. Insurance premiums across the board would double in the next decade. Medicaid would be decimated by a $842 billion cut, imperiling the future of a program that covers seniors in nursing homes, people with disabilities, children, and the most vulnerable among us.
“After promising ‘great health care for much less money,’ these are the enormous costs that President Trump and Senate Republicans are asking ordinary Americans to bear in order to give the wealthiest Americans a massive tax cut.
“This is a morally bankrupt effort. Senate Republicans must abandon this approach and begin working in a good faith, bipartisan manner to build upon the progress made by the Affordable Care Act and continue to improve it.”