Rep. Krishnamoorthi: I Want It Voted Down, I Want Shutdown to Continue

BOLDUAN: “One of the senators voting for this deal was Senator Dick Durbin, the Illinois senator who’s retiring the Illinois Senate seat. You are now running to win. Did Dick Durbin cut a bad deal for America?”
KRISHNAMOORTHI: “Well, I disagree with his vote, but, you know, he’s had an illustrious career of standing up for working families, I’m not going to tear him down today. But today we are in the House and we’re going to vote on this deal. I’m going to be voting no. There’s still time for this to get righted. I think that it’s going to be on razor’s edge as it normally is in the House. And so I hope that your viewers speak up and ask Democrats to stand united and also get a few Republicans to flip as well.”
BOLDUAN: “When you talk about getting it righted, what do you mean, amendments or voting this down?”
KRISHNAMOORTHI: “I’d like to see it voted down. I want it voted down, and I think we’ve got to go back to the drawing table. Look, the ACA tax credits are about to expire, and as it is, we have 11 hospitals in Illinois that are about to close because of what the president calls the Big Beautiful Bill. I call it the Large Lousy Law. I visited these hospitals in Illinois, and they’re basically saying, look, if this ACA tax credit issue is not resolved and those tax credits are not extended, it’s going to put additional pressure, and maybe even more health systems may face closure as well.”