Sen. Ron Wyden on the Secret Republican Health Care Bill
Secrecy, evasion, and stonewalling defined the news in Congress this week. While the media focused on Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s tight-lipped testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, a more consequential story hid in the deep recesses of congressional boardrooms, as Senate Republicans furtively crafted their replacement for Obamacare.
No doubt this secrecy was part of the reason why the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal failed to cover it on their front pages for much of the week. Brooke speaks with Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon about the great lengths Republicans have gone to hide their bill from the press and Senate Democrats, and what it could mean for millions of Americans.
