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BREAKING NEWS: Pennsylvanians to pay 30 percent MORE for health insurance because of President Trump & GOP Congress.

PA Insurance Commissioner says after Trump's decision to end CSR payments, rates for individual and small group health insurance going up 30%:

The American people have rejected Trumpcare again and again, but President Trump won’t be persuaded to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and ensure millions of Americans continue to have access to quality, affordable coverage.  With a quick flourish of his pen, President Trump is doubling down on his efforts to sabotage the ACA – singlehandedly hiking health premiums with his executive actions less than 3 weeks before open enrollment starts on November 1. 

This morning, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos to discuss President Trump’s shameful decision to cut off Cost-Sharing Reduction payments, which would spike premiums by at least 20 percent for working families.  She called on the White House to follow the bipartisan efforts of Senators Patty Murray and Lamar Alexander to improve health care by strengthening the Affordable Care Act.

There is one undisputed fact we know about President Trump: he's all about the numbers, big numbers.  From TV ratings, the NFL's tax breaks, and even his IQ.

As he heads to Pennsylvania today, we wanted to remind President Trump of three numbers that show how his devastating agenda has endangered local families:

Over the weekend, the Trump Administration released a list of demands for Congress in exchange for an agreement to protect the lives of 800,000 innocent DREAMers – including support for the immoral border wall.

Since the unveiling of the Ryan-McConnell tax framework, President Trump and Congressional Republicans have touted the plan as a ‘middle class miracle':

"We want to give every middle income family in America a tax cut." – Speaker Paul Ryan  

"We want to lower taxes at every level." – Rep. Kevin Brady, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

This evening, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Chris Cuomo for CNN's LivePelosi Town Hall in the wake of the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas to discuss the immediate need for commonsense gun reform legislation.  She echoed House Democrats' calls to pass the bipartisan King-Thompson legislation to strengthen life-saving background checks and to form a bipartisan Select Committee on Gun Violence.

Leader Pelosi also discussed Republicans' billionaires-first budget plan which would pave the way for massive tax cuts for the wealthy few on the backs of work

275: Days since the start of this Republican Congress as of October 4, 2017 142: Days the GOP House has been in session, 38 of which were pro-forma days in which the House gaveled in & out in a matter of minutes & no legislative business was completed