WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said Republicans who support the tax-and-spending bill championed by President Donald Trump must also be held accountable for the impact of the Medicaid cuts contained in the package.
And that includes Ossoff’s most prominent would-be challengers next year, two of whom voted for the bill as members of the U.S. House and a third who said he would have if he were in office.
“My Republican opponents own this,” Ossoff said in an exclusive interview on Monday’s “Politically Georgia” podcast. “They supported this policy, even though they were warned by health care and hospital leaders across the state of Georgia that this would damage health care in Georgia.”
It is the sharpest criticism to date from Ossoff of U.S. Reps. Mike Collins and Buddy Carter and form