{"id":75897,"date":"2026-07-09T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/house-republican-thomas-massie-suggests-obamacare-could-now-be-labeled-trumpcare\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:55:59","slug":"house-republican-thomas-massie-suggests-obamacare-could-now-be-labeled-trumpcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/house-republican-thomas-massie-suggests-obamacare-could-now-be-labeled-trumpcare\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican Thomas Massie suggests Obamacare could now be labeled &#8216;Trumpcare&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Donald Trump<\/a> and Republican lawmakers over Obamacare on Wednesday, suggesting that it could now be referred to as &#8220;Trumpcare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Might as well call it Trumpcare now. Our party has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control of the House, Senate &amp; White House,&#8221; Massie wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2074985853651169361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why? Because the current system enriches insurance and hospital companies,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/massie-lashes-out-pressed-ex-girlfriends-allegations-affair-gop-firebrand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MASSIE LASHES OUT WHEN PRESSED ON EX-GIRLFRIEND&#8217;S ALLEGATIONS OF AFFAIR WITH GOP FIREBRAND<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A user responded to the congressman&#8217;s comments by asking, &#8220;How can things get done without votes. Is trump able to do something on his own?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Massie <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2075030947104182751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">replied<\/a> that the president has &#8220;endorsed literally every Republican who wants to keep Obamacare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/massie-positions-potential-political-future-primary-defeat-wont-going-away-silently\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MASSIE POSITIONS HIMSELF FOR POTENTIAL POLITICAL FUTURE AFTER PRIMARY DEFEAT: &#8216;I WON&#8217;T BE GOING AWAY SILENTLY&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to the <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House<\/a> early on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Massie lost the Republican primary in Kentucky&#8217;s 4th Congressional District in May to President Donald Trump-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/media\/trump-backed-candidate-ed-gallrein-calls-kentucky-upset-david-vs-goliath-win-defeating-massie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenger Ed Gallrein<\/a>, a former Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-admin-cracks-estimated-10-billion-obamacare-from-fraud-boots-3-million-rolls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TRUMP ADMIN CRACKS DOWN ON ESTIMATED $10 BILLION IN OBAMACARE FRAUD, BOOTS MILLIONS FROM ROLLS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massie has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since late 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., criticized President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers over Obamacare on Wednesday, suggesting that it could now be referred to as &#8220;Trumpcare.&#8221; &#8220;Might as well call it Trumpcare now. Our party has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control of the House, Senate &amp; &#8230; <a title=\"House Republican Thomas Massie suggests Obamacare could now be labeled &#8216;Trumpcare&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/house-republican-thomas-massie-suggests-obamacare-could-now-be-labeled-trumpcare\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House Republican Thomas Massie suggests Obamacare could now be labeled &#8216;Trumpcare&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}