{"id":1674,"date":"2017-07-25T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/25\/tom-perez-on-gop-vote-to-advance-health-care-repeal\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T19:16:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-gop-vote-to-advance-health-care-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-vote-to-advance-health-care-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on GOP Vote to Advance Health Care Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After Senate Republicans, including Sens. Heller, Capito, Flake, Moran, and Hoeven today voted to move forward with their health care repeal, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have ignored the people they&rsquo;re supposed to represent. They have broken their promises. And today, they turned their backs on human decency.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This will be the Republican Party&rsquo;s legacy under repeal: families going bankrupt; children suffering from untreated illnesses; Americans facing death because they cannot afford the care that would keep them alive. This is the future Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Congressional Republicans want for America &#8212; a nation shattered by cruelty. History will not forget that when voters looked to the Republican Party for courage, all they found were cowards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be fooled. No matter what they call it, their goal is to repeal the ACA and take health care away from millions. It&rsquo;s time once again to call your representatives and tell them health care is a right for all, not a privilege for the few.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Tom P&eacute;rez acerca de la votaci&oacute;n para avanzar derogaci&oacute;n del Obamacare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Despu&eacute;s de que los republicanos en el Senado votaron hoy para avanzar con su plan para revocar la Ley de Salud a Bajo Precio, el Director del Comit&eacute; Nacional Dem&oacute;crata, Tom P&eacute;rez, realiz&oacute; las siguientes declaraciones:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump y los republicanos del Congreso han ignorado a las personas que se supone deben representar y han roto sus promesas, d&aacute;ndole la espalda a la decencia humana.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Si logran derogar el Obamacare, el legado del partido republicano ser&aacute; de familias en la quiebra; ni&ntilde;os que padecen enfermedades sin recibir tratamiento; personas muriendo porque no pueden pagar el cuidado que les mantendr&iacute;a vivos. Este es el futuro que Donald Trump, Mike Pence y los republicanos del Congreso quieren para los Estados Unidos: una naci&oacute;n destrozada por la crueldad. La historia y los votantes no olvidar&aacute;n que cuando buscaron valor en el partido republicano, lo que encontraron fue cobard&iacute;a.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No nos dejemos enga&ntilde;ar. No importa c&oacute;mo lo llamen, su objetivo es derogar el Obamacare y quitar el acceso a la salud a millones. Es tiempo de que llamen a sus representantes y les digan que el acceso a la salud es un derecho para todos, no un privilegio para unos pocos.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Senate Republicans, including Sens. Heller, Capito, Flake, Moran, and Hoeven today voted to move forward with their health care repeal, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement: &#8220;Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have ignored the people they&rsquo;re supposed to represent. They have broken their promises. And today, they turned their backs on <\/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-1674","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 on GOP Vote to Advance Health Care Repeal - 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-on-gop-vote-to-advance-health-care-repeal\/\" \/>\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=\"2017-07-25T19:16:00+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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-vote-to-advance-health-care-repeal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-vote-to-advance-health-care-repeal\/\",\"name\":\"Tom Perez on GOP Vote to Advance Health Care Repeal - 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