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Durbin slams Senate GOP health-care plan: “You can put a lace collar on a pit bull and it’s still a mean dog”
Senator Dick Durbin slammed the Senate Republicans’ new health-care bill Thursday, saying, “You can put a lace collar on a pit bull and it’s still a mean dog.” Republican senators have been trying to claim that its newly released draft legislation is not as “mean” as even President Trump at one point proclaimed the House version to be, but that’s not true, according to Durbin. His fellow Democratic senator, Tammy Duckworth, noted that the Senate version includes “massive tax cuts to Trump’s billionaire friends” and would force “millions of working Americans to pay more for less care.” [Tribune]
