Walz faces backlash after defending Obama-era mandate repealed by Trump: 'Massive tax penalty'

Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Tim Walz faced backlash connected societal media aft helium defended an idiosyncratic healthcare mandate during a backmost and distant with his counterpart, Republican Sen. JD Vance, successful their archetypal and lone statement connected Tuesday night. 

"The question astir this of young people, whatever, that's the idiosyncratic mandate," Walz said during a speech connected healthcare and the Affordable Care Act astatine the CBS News statement successful New York City. "And Republicans fought bony and nail saying Americans should beryllium escaped to bash this."

Vance past interjected, asking, "Tim bash you deliberation the idiosyncratic mandate is simply a bully idea?"

"I deliberation the thought of making definite the hazard excavation is wide capable to screen everyone -- that's the lone mode security works. When it doesn't, it collapses. You are asking pre- ACA wherever we get radical out. Look, radical cognize that they request to beryllium connected wellness care. People expect it to beryllium there."

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz baffled the net connected Tuesday erstwhile helium accidently declared helium has "become friends with schoolhouse shooters" during the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate against Sen. JD Vance.  (Getty Images)

Walz went connected to accidental that the ACA "works" but we tin "continue to bash better."

Walz's comments defending the idiosyncratic mandate drew disapproval connected societal media, with radical pointing retired that it was repealed during the Trump administration.

"We eliminated an particularly cruel taxation that fell mostly connected Americans making little than $50,000 a twelvemonth — forcing them to wage tremendous penalties simply due to the fact that they could not spend government-ordered wellness plans," Trump told an assemblage during the 2018 State of the Union Address.

"We repealed the halfway of disastrous Obamacare — the idiosyncratic mandate is present gone," helium added.

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Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a vice statesmanlike statement hosted by CBS News, with Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, successful New York. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

"Tim Walz conscionable endorsed reinstating the Obamacare mandate which was a monolithic taxation punishment for Americans who can't spend to bargain insurance," GOP Sen. Tom Cotton posted connected X. 

"Oh my god, Walz defending the idiosyncratic mandate," writer Josh Barro posted connected X. "Does helium cognize determination isn't 1 anymore?"

Republican vice statesmanlike campaigner Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) participates successful a statement astatine the CBS Broadcast Center connected October 1, 2024 successful New York City. This is expected to beryllium the lone vice statesmanlike statement of the 2024 wide election.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Tim Walz doubles down connected his enactment for Obamacare’s idiosyncratic mandate tax, by acold the slightest fashionable portion of Obamacare," Americans for Tax Reform Director Mike Palicz posted connected X.

"This would interruption Kamala’s pledge not to rise taxes connected anyone earning little than $400K. Trump Tax Cuts repealed the hated idiosyncratic mandate tax."

During the debate, Vance argued, "Donald Trump has said that if we let states to experimentation a small spot connected however to screen some the chronically ill, but the non-chronically ill, it's not conscionable a plan. He really implemented immoderate of these regulations erstwhile helium was President of the United States. And I deliberation you tin marque a truly bully statement that it salvaged Obamacare, which was doing disastrously until Donald Trump came along."

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Fox News Digital reported Monday that Walz has antecedently voiced his enactment for single-payer government-run healthcare.

"I deliberation that's astir apt the way wherever we extremity up," Walz said successful a 2018 statement portion moving for politician erstwhile asked, "Are you for single-payer?"

"And I accidental that because, beryllium precise wide astir this, determination were nary protections for preexisting conditions earlier the ACA," Walz continued. "A ballot for the ACA was the archetypal clip successful this nation's past we had those protections and making definite radical person that protection, making definite they were covered, and past making definite we were focused connected preventative care, radical were yet getting that nether the ACA, we started to spot wellness outcomes amended and that's the existent cardinal to driving down security premium prices."