The White House is tired of hearing about Jonathan Gruber’s comments.
Everyone is getting “pretty tired of relitigating” Gruber’s comments — everyone except Republicans, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday.
Gruber’s comments that the Affordable Care Act was passed because of the “stupidity” of the American voter is not shared by “anybody at the White House,” Earnest said, adding very few Americans are paying attention to the narrative.
“Some Republicans are fanning the flames of those old political arguments because it’s politically advantageous. It’s easier for them to talk about six-to-eight-year-old videos than to talk about how the open enrollment period has gone smoothly so far, or the millions who have gotten health insurance,” he said.
Gruber’s views “don’t actually reflect what actually happened in the process of passing and implementing this law,” Earnest reiterated, calling Gruber just an adviser on the legislation.
“It wasn’t his responsibility to try to figure out how to get this bill through,” Earnest said. “It also, I think, is why it’s pretty clear that the views that he’s articulated do not reflect what happened.”
