Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said talks are stalled on the fifth day of the government shutdown, with Democrats seeking to undo Medicaid cuts and restore Obamacare subsidies and Republicans demanding a clean funding bill to fund the government into November. “It's really a moment of health care crisis,” Booker told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz. Booker said he’s less concerned with which party is to blame for the shutdown and more focused on Americans’ health and personal finances that he said are at risk from the shutdown. “I don't care about the blame game. I care about Americans losing their health insurance, rates of death going up, hospitals being crushed, medical services ending in places in rural America. This is a tsunami of Donald Trump's creation,” Booker said. This
Booker says shutdown standoff is a 'tsunami of Donald Trump's creation'

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