Hoyer Discusses Funding the Government and TrumpCare on MSNBC's Morning Joe

On Funding the Government

“I think the American people won. I think the Congress won. The process won. And we didn't have chaos. That was a good win. I think today we'll pass this agreement handily with hopefully both sides providing a majority of their votes, so I think you're right. The American people won.”

On TrumpCare

“Joe, all I can tell you is, you know, the Vice President has an office at the end of the hall that he and I share. All I saw yesterday was Members parading into the office, I’m sure being coaxed, trying to be convinced that the bill they’ve put forward is a good bill, but I don't think they are there. I’m not sure they are going to get there.”

“[Republicans] had a slogan: repeal. But they didn't have a solution. The problem they have been trying to do since the election is to try to find a solution to what they have been talking about for six years and they haven't found it. In fact, they made the bill worse, and I think what's happened is millions of Americans like Jimmy Kimmel started thinking about what does it mean to repeal the Affordable Care Act. What does it mean to me, what does it mean to my family? I think Jimmy Kimmel just captured the personal consequences of repeal. And [Rep.] Billy Long from Missouri, a conservative Republican, said look, one of the good things in the Affordable Care Act was pre-existing conditions and now they have undermined that. Every medical association indicates that. Every consumer group says that.”

“We ought to be working in a constructive way, cooperative way like, frankly, we're going to do today on the appropriations process, the omnibus. We ought to be working in that vein to make the Affordable Care Act work better. To the extent there are constructive criticisms of that bill, we ought to address them. That's not what the Republicans have been doing, and hopefully we will go to that place.”