Hoyer Discusses Senate Republicans' Secret TrumpCare Bill on CNBC's "Squawk Box"

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) joined CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to discuss Senate Republicans' secret TrumpCare bill. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video:

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“Only about 35% of Americans support the House bill, and [the Senate bill] is in some ways deeper cuts in Medicaid, deeper cuts for tax cuts for the wealthy coming down the line. We’re still probably going to see 23 or 24 million people cut off from health care insurance. We don't have any score from CBO yet. This has all been done in secret.”

“They've run [the bill] through secretly both the House and in the Senate--no hearings, no committees, no mark-ups, no opportunities for amendments, so its process is terrible. But more importantly, I think the product is going to be perceived by the public as terrible, and harmful to them and to their families and to their opportunities to get affordable, quality health care.”

“It’s going to be interesting to see whether or not Senator McConnell can get [Senate Republicans] to rationalize a bad process – and, frankly, many of them think it's a bad bill – to vote for it.”

“There needs to be bipartisan compromise, and working together we can make the Affordable Care Act work much better. We Democrats have said that continuously.”

“Certainly there are strong views on both sides of this question, but the President of the United States, if he sends down a bill that does what he says he wants to do—that is, everybody has insurance, lower cost, better quality – I’ve said, he sends that kind of bill down and he accomplishes those objectives, I’m going to be for it. He hasn’t done that, of course.”