Trump urges Senate Republicans to redirect funds from Obamacare-backed insurers, pay Americans directly

Rep. Tom Emmer warns nobody wins as government shutdown reaches day 39

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., joins Fox & Friends Weekend to discuss the impact of the ongoing government shutdown. 

President Donald Trump has urged Senate Republicans to abolish Obamacare and reroute federal health care spending directly to individual Americans.

In a Truth Social post Saturday morning, Trump wrote: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over."

President Donald Trump has urged Senate Republicans to abolish Obamacare and reroute federal health care spending directly to individual Americans. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

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"In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare."

"Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!"

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