Dem Rep. Dean: Shutdown Made People 'Focus' on Health Care, 'Very Successful'

On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) stated that “by shutting the government down, we were able to focus on and get everybody else focused on the unaffordability of health care across this country.” And “we were very successful.”

After viewing criticism of the shutdown and its harms from Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Dean said, “I disagree with him on his vote over and over and over again, for the simple reason that we made a very strong argument. These were extraordinary circumstances, but the American people got it that, by shutting the government down, we were able to focus on and get everybody else focused on the unaffordability of health care across this country.”

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