House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Thursday the plan to vote that day on the House Republican health care bill is a "rookie's error," before she appeared to criticize Americans who voted for President Donald Trump.
During a press conference at the Capitol, Pelosi discussed the plan of Republican leadership to hold a vote on their Obamacare replacement bill on the seventh anniversary of the law's passing.
"I don't know if you want to call this on Trump's part a 'rookie's error,' but you don't find a day and say, 'We're going to pass a bill,'" Pelosi said.
Pelosi repeated that the timing of the vote was a "rookie's error" on the president's part before her voice started cracking.
The White House and Republican leaders in Congress have been working this week to secure enough votes to pass the American Health Care Act, the GOP proposal to replace Obamacare. Some conservative lawmakers oppose the plan, arguing it does not go far enough to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and may vote against it.
The California Democrat also appeared to take a shot at Trump voters, saying they voted for a president who will take away a program that benefits them.
"More than $600 billion transferred upward at the expense of working families," Pelosi said. "Ironically, some of these families are people who voted for Trump, like 57 percent of, in some areas, 57 percent of the people voted for Trump are on the Affordable [Care Act]."
Pelosi also claimed during the press briefing that Republicans want to make Americans sick.
"That's their goal, to make America sick again," Pelosi said.
"Make America Sick Again" is a slogan that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) introduced earlier this year to disparage Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, playing off of Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
Pelosi and other House Democrats had reportedly dropped the phrase earlier this month but appear to be reemploying it for the health care fight.