Buttigieg pops Warren over ‘evasive’ answers on health care plan

Pete Buttigieg takes a swipe at fellow 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren

Pete Buttigieg on Thursday took a swipe at fellow 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren, knocking the Massachusetts senator for a lack of transparency about how she’d pay for her “Medicare for All” plan.

Buttigieg goes on to say in the op-ed: “Anyone who lets the words Medicare for All escape their lips should tell us just as plainly how they plan to get there.”on Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show,” during which the senator continually dodged answering explicitly whether the middle class would see its taxes go up, despite Colbert’s calling her out for skirting the specifics.

It’s just the latest instance of Buttigieg beginning to draw sharper contrasts with his rivals as his campaign appears to have stalled a bit among the 2020 field. In the days since last week’s primary debate in Houston, Buttigiegwith former Rep. Beto O’Rourke over O’Rourke’s insistence that he would impose a mandatory federal buyback of assault weapons if elected president.

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