CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Wednesday’s taping of The Late Show for one of his regular segments where he seeks to align his show’s talking points with those of congressional Democrats. This time, the duo focused on the ongoing government shutdown and claimed that they are merely interested in providing affordable healthcare.
Colbert began with the kind of question that is really just a statement with a question mark thrown in at the end, “Well, this shutdown has gone on for 29 days. If I can characterize the position the Democrats want the Republicans to address the lapsing of the tax credits and ACA, the Obamacare, so people are going to see the rates jump up starting in November, right?”
Because the real answer of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer being scared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to primary him would not have made Democrats look good, Gallego instead claimed, “Basically starting November 1, people are going to start opening up and start signing up for health insurance, and they’re going to realize the health insurance that they’ve had for the last couple of years has been very affordable is now not going to be affordable. And so, for example, in Arizona a family of about, you know, four or five could potentially see their premiums jump almost, you know, 50 percent.”
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. steve malzberg
