Politics & Government
Now at Eye of Obamacare Storm: Stillwater Native Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough said he's had 'too much humble pie' on ACA, the AP reported.
He was a Stillwater boy but now he's the man at the center of the country's biggest controversy: Obamacare.
The Associated Press reports that White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough has taken over the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—and he's not going to take grief over the program's troubled website:
"I've had too much humble pie," he fumed, striding into a top aide's West Wing office. "That was the last slice. I'm full." ...
McDonough's message: It was time to change tactics, quit lamenting the problems and start emphasizing the benefits of the health care overhaul. ...
"Denis takes everything personally. Nobody is going to be harder on Denis than himself," says his friend Ben Rhodes, a deputy White House national security adviser. "He was angry, frustrated, all of the above. If there is a problem, it is his personal mission to fix it, even if it is beyond his direct capacity to do so."
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