HHS Appointees and Senate Republican Resistance to Reform

Most of them do not want change. Most of them do not want change.

And so what we were doing was very disruptive.

And we've got a lot of people simplify it and say it was one person or one industry is not what was happening.

It, it was coming from everywhere. Um, but one of the places it was coming w- from was the Senate, and from the Republicans on the Senate.

Every time I tried to do something robust, I would get calls saying, "If you do that, we're not gonna confirm your, your appointees."

A- And so I said to the group at HHS, I said, "You know, the Democrats, no matter how great the appointee is, not one vote will go to them.

We know that, 'cause that's what's happened in the past.

Not one of my appointees ever gotten a single Democratic vote.

The Senate no longer has any leverage over me."

And, um, you know, the-- and that's a big deal.

And then we have Steve Miller in, who's a, um, a friend of our movement.

And I don't think, uh, anything is gonna get in our way now.

And that's why I said, I said-- I put out a tweet at one point, I said, "Stephanie..."

'Cause Stephanie was asking me what I'd say, and I'd say, I said, "Just write release the Kraken."

Because that's, that's what we're about to do.

And so stand by. Thank you for getting us here.

God bless you all, and let's go get this job done.

Thank you.