At a Troy Jackson campaign event in Maine, AOC says Susan Collins will claim she didn't vote for the "big ugly bill" but waited until it had enough votes before voting no. AOC says Collins voted yes on the procedural votes that let the trillion dollars in health care cuts reach the floor.
The receipt
- Who
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Where
- rally - town hall with Senate candidate Troy Jackson, Portland, Maine
- Original footage
- Associated Press · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
for all of us to understand that the trillion dollars in health care cuts that Susan Collins paved the way for, right? She will say, oh, I didn't vote for the big ugly bill. She waited until they had enough votes. But I'm going to tell you something. She voted. In Congress, there's a lot of procedural votes that say, you go ahead, you go ahead, move it. It just just showed on the floor one day. It has to pass committee, it passes rules, and at every single moment, you have the opportunity to stand up and say that. In the votes that allowed this trillion dollars in healthcare cuts to go to the floor, Susan Collins voted yes.
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