{"id":1669,"date":"2017-07-24T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/24\/tom-perez-response-to-trump-remarks-on-health-care\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T21:11:00","slug":"tom-perez-response-to-trump-remarks-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-response-to-trump-remarks-on-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez Response to Trump Remarks on Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In response to Trump&rsquo;s remarks on healthcare and tomorrow&rsquo;s vote to advance the Senate Republican Health Care repeal bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, Donald Trump told Senate Republicans to ignore their constituents and take health care away from up to 32 million Americans. Many senators haven&rsquo;t even seen the bill they&rsquo;re voting on, let alone discussed it with the people they represent.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But no matter how many ways President Trump tries to twist or hide the truth, the facts won&rsquo;t change: the Affordable Care Act has been a lifesaver for millions of Americans &ndash; and repealing it would be devastating for middle class families and our economy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. It&rsquo;s time for our Republican colleagues to drop this charade and join Democrats as we work to improve our health care system for all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Trump&rsquo;s remarks on healthcare and tomorrow&rsquo;s vote to advance the Senate Republican Health Care repeal bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement: &ldquo;Today, Donald Trump told Senate Republicans to ignore their constituents and take health care away from up to 32 million Americans. Many senators haven&rsquo;t even seen the bill <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Perez Response to Trump Remarks on Health Care - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-response-to-trump-remarks-on-health-care\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-24T21:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-response-to-trump-remarks-on-health-care\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-response-to-trump-remarks-on-health-care\/\",\"name\":\"Tom Perez Response to Trump Remarks on Health Care - 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