Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Extension of #CHIP for 6 years is no small thing. Thank you, Senate Democrats for your commitment to saving health insurance for children. It's disappointing that the GOP made this a bargaining chip rather than a priority.

They played their hand well. Held out funding CHIP in order to use it as a bargaining card.

I know what you mean, but in a moral world, that's not playing their hand well. It's the type of politics that makes people hate politics. In a better world, we'd work in a bipartisan way to get things done efficiently and then talk through differences.