Your response?”Smith responded, “Well, that’s not the reason we’re having this budget fight. It is a distraction from the larger issue of the millions of people who are going to lose their health care under the Medicaid cuts and the cuts to the Affordable Care Act. They’re focusing on one little niche issue, and there [are] different pieces to it, to be sure. But the broader issue is the cuts to Medicaid, the cuts to the Affordable Care Act, and the whole Republican budget, which did massive tax cuts to the wealthy, added $170 billion to DHS so that ICE agents can violate people’s rights all across the country. That’s the budget that they expect Democrats to simply vote for.