El-Sayed open to working with Trump on affordable healthcare

Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) stated he was open to working with President Trump on affordable healthcare despite the pair trading jabs while the incoming senator was on the campaign trail.

“Look, I’ve never met the man. He is the president of the United States. I am the U.S. senator-elect from the state of Michigan. I am happy to meet with him,” El-Sayed told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “ This Week .”

“I’ll meet with anyone who can advance the goals I ran on to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, pass Medicare for all,” he continued. “I’ve said this: if he wants to pass Trump Care for All, which will guarantee health care to everyone, and put his name on it, like he’s putting his name on everything, I’m game.”

“Let’s see if he wants to do that. So I haven’t had any outreach. I’m happy to sit down with him, talk about how we can serve the Michiganders who just elected me,” he concluded.

Trump has attacked El-Sayed multiple times about his family background and faith. At a campaign rally, the president told supporters that El-Sayed would be “the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate.”

In a Truth Social post before the rally, Trump called El-Sayed “a Jihadist Member of the Muslim Brotherhood,” adding that he believed the incoming Senator wanted “our Country to go to Sharia Law.”

El-Sayed hit back days before Election Day , saying, “I’ll go through a metal detector every day. You sit through a lie detector one time…That’s the deal.”

The Michigan senator’s willingness to work with the president comes after Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) expressed a similar desire to collaborate with Trump and the MAGA movement on affordable healthcare.

“If the president wants to work with me or with any Democrat to expand healthcare access, I’m there,” Talarico said, adding that he would similarly help to “build millions of new homes” and “slash the red tape.”

Talarico stated that he hoped the midterm election would be a “wake-up call” for Trump and his administration to “reverse course.”