House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) retorted to a reporter's question about slipping support for Obamacare at her Thursday press conference that it was called the "Affordable Care Act."
Pelosi has referred to the law previously as Obamacare, although she also told Meet the Press host David Gregory she'd "always" called it the Affordable Care Act during a contentious November interview.
Full exchange:
Q: The three "Obamacare" bills on the floor tomorrow in the House, some Democrats have indicated they might be open to supporting them. How strongly are you pushing members to vote against them? And does it start to become a sign of weakening support if more Democrats --
NANCY PELOSI: Absolutely not. First of all, it's called the "Affordable Care Act." If that's what you're referencing, yeah, they are going after the Affordable Care Act. They're saying, let's do everything we can to take away health insurance from 9 million Americans who already have it and prevent many more millions of Americans from having it.