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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Tuesday urged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to stop sharing criticism about GOP lawmakers’ approach to solving the lapse in Affordable Care Act subsidies and present her own plan.
“If this is something she‘s passionate about, put pen to paper, write a bill, present an option,” Moreno said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source.”
“Don‘t just criticize what other people are doing,” he added.
Moreno said ACA credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year, have been an “abject failure at keeping costs affordable” and credited Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) for working on potential reforms.
“It’s going to take three or four months to really bring a consensus to that plan. In the meantime, what are we going to do? Keep the government closed for three or four months every time that we have a policy debate? This is nuts…,” the Ohio senator told anchor Kaitlan Collins.
“Look, we have different Republicans. For example, Senator Rick Scott, that’s brilliant on this topic, that has a lot of amazing ideas. But yeah, of course, we have to build consensus,” he added.
Moreno continued, “This is not a one-man show that runs the United States Senate.”
Greene has repeatedly slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not revealing his approach to preventing health care costs from skyrocketing and refusing to bring the lower chamber back into session amid the government shutdown.
“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the Georgia Republican wrote in a Tuesday post on X.
“Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!” she added, referring to a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility used by government officials for classified material.
Johnson has said subsidies expiring is a “serious problem,” during a Monday press conference.
“If you look at it objectively, you know that it is subsidizing bad policy. We’re throwing good money at a bad, broken system, and so it needs real reforms,” Johnson added.
Trump on Tuesday echoed those concerns and said Obamacare could never work.
“Obamacare — it never worked. It never will work. It’ll never be good,” the president told reporters on Air Force One.
“And I think it’s a great time for the Republicans and Democrats to get together and make something that will work, and let the insurance companies make money. They’re entitled to that — but not the kind of money that they’re making,” he continued.
