Sen. Maria Cantwell reps hard for her constituents. And she also reps hard for Seattle hip-hop, such as it is: The Washington Democrat managed to work in a reference to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ 2012 album “The Heist” as she critiqued House Republicans’ alternative to Obamacare.
(Why Macklemore? I honestly don’t know. How many rappers can you name from Washington state?)
“For the first time you will be putting Medicaid under a formula that will reduce the amount of people covered in the United States of America and put 14 million people, according to CBO, at a loss of Medicaid coverage,” Cantwell said in comments to the news media on Tuesday.