MICK MULVANEY:

When it breaks. ‘Cause it’s going to break. And I think that’s the one thing that folks have not started talking about yet, and it’s so frustrating to me, as we did really try to help folks back home, is that the end result here is that people back home are going to be hurt. Now, the Democrats will get blamed for it, because there’s no question now. It’s not Trumpcare in this country, it’s not Ryancare, it is Obamacare. They will get blamed, okay?

CHUCK TODD:

So you don’t believe you have any responsibility to make sure that the law of the land that Paul Ryan said, “Obamacare’s going to be the law of the land for the foreseeable future,” does your administration have the duty to make it work?

MICK MULVANEY:

We had the duty to try and fix it. And we did everything that we possibly could.

CHUCK TODD:

But do you have the duty to make it work now as it stands?

MICK MULVANEY:

We have the duty to protect people back home. And that’s what we’re going to try and do. You cannot fix a broken system. This is a system built on the idea that the government could force you to do something you didn’t want, and that that would make you happy.

You are never going to fix that. This system must be removed. It must be repealed and replaced. And you’re not going to fix a system that doesn’t trust people to do what’s in their best interest. And that’s what Obamacare does.