It’s a given that the Trump administration is stuffed with assholes with outlandishly oversized egos: Water is wet, am I right? But sometimes, these idiots clash in a battle to determine who’s the biggest, pettiest dick—which brings us to the epic beef between Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid administrator Seema Verma, one that has escalated to the point that even Donald Trump and Mike Pence have been forced to intervene in an effort to end the squabbling. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has called the two into his office for a stern lecture scheduled for Thursday. Can’t have the kids fighting when you’re trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid, after all!
for a stern lecture scheduled for Thursday. Can’t have the kids fighting when you’re trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid, after all!the months-long brawl, the two have clashed over the best way to gut the ACA, “delaying the president’s long-promised replacement proposal for Obamacare.” Verma also helped kill a plan much-touted by Azar that would have eliminated some drug rebates when she shit-talked his idea in a meeting with Trump and other officials.
But I sense that this beef is, at its heart, a personal one. Both Azar and Verma lived in Indianapolis before decamping to D.C. to join the administration, and their children even attended the same school. As Politico delicately put it, “despite their overlapping connections, the two are not personally close, officials said.” There’s a whole universe to unpack in that sentence.
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