Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion Democrats’ complaints about CHIP funding are hypocrisy in its purest form

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May 22, 2018 at 6:17 p.m. EDT
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) speaks during a news conference in February. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
correction

An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) voted for rescissions to the Children’s Health Insurance Program as part of the March 2018 omnibus bill. Hoyer voted no on the omnibus bill. This version has be updated.

Mick Mulvaney is director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Just last month, Democratic Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) stated on the House floor, “I wouldn’t irrationally oppose a rescission which said we’ve had money lying in an account that has not been spent for one, two, three years; we shouldn’t just have it sitting in that account.”