Velshi: Trump is using the shutdown to punish his rivals – and the American people
MSNBC·2025-10-04 19:17
I want to take you back to the summer of 2017 in Washington. We're about six months into Donald Trump's first term, and Republicans were trying to make good on their promise to repeal Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, which provided health insurance coverage for more than 10 million Americans at that point. But despite having been promising and planning this repeal for literally years, the GOP, which was newly taken over by Donald Trump, didn't have a real plan for what to replace it with. and they were n ...