#PlaybookInterview with Leader Pelosi: Highlights
In her remarks, Leader Pelosi reiterated her call for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after having misled the country about his conversations with the Russians. Leader Pelosi also highlighted the impact of the Trump Administration's actions on Americans – taking away the health care of millions, building an immoral and ineffective border wall with no way to pay for it, and proposing tax breaks for the wealthy at the expense of middle class, hard-working families.
On AG Sessions:
"If, in fact, these meetings were innocuous, why did he deny that he had them? The fact is: he's the top cop. He's the highest law enforcement office in the country. He's supposed to tell the truth. What does that say to the lawyers in the Department of Justice? What does that say to the American Bar Association? This is just totally unacceptable. And the very idea that they're making excuses and splitting hairs and this or that…the recusal is an admission that something was wrong."
On GOP Plan to ‘Repeal and Replace' ACA:
"With ‘Repeal & Replace', the only thing [Republicans] have going for it is alliteration. They don't have the votes. And so how are they going to replace it?"
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"Here's the thing: the purpose of doing the Affordable Care Act was to lower costs because even if everyone loved their care and their insurer and all the rest of that, the rising cost of health care in our country was totally unsustainable to individuals, to families, to small businesses, to corporate America and totally unsustainable to the public sector – local, state and federal government…If [their plan] does nothing to harm the path of lowering costs or increasing coverage…we have something to talk about."
On the Border Wall:
"The border wall is unwise, immoral, ineffective, enormously costly. How are they going to pay for it? You know the Mexicans are not paying for it. If we had some additional money to spend – technology, personnel and the rest is a better place to go."
On Infrastructure:
"The President, in addition to being a fear monger, is a notion monger. There isn't an idea that comes forward – something that says this is our goal, our vision, these are the facts about it, this is our plan to get it done. He just says, ‘we're going to have an infrastructure bill,' and when he said the public-private partnership, that was menacing."
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"I've made it clear to the Administration: if this is a real infrastructure bill, let's talk. But if this is a tax bill disguised as an infrastructure bill, that's not going to happen."
On GOP's Border Tax:
"The border tax is a regressive tax on working families in our country. And we have practically zero – maybe there's somebody who supports it in our Caucus, but they have not come forward yet because it's just not a place to go. And I don't even know that it has any level of success on the Republican side."
And the Future of the Democratic Party:
"It's not about the Democrats. It's about America. And what we see that gives us so much hope is that people see the urgency, understand elections have consequences. Since the election, we hear all over the country, ‘What can we do?' I've never seen anything like that after an election in the manner in which we are seeing it…And our Members are united by our values that center on America's working families. That's why we're Democrats."