当选参议员阿卜杜勒·埃尔-萨耶德（Abdul El-Sayed，民主党-密歇根州）表示，尽管他在竞选期间与特朗普总统互相攻击，但他愿意与特朗普在平价医疗保健问题上合作。“听着，我从未见过这个人。他是美国总统。我是来自密歇根州的美国当选参议员。我乐意与他会面，”埃尔-萨耶德在ABC的《本周》（This Week）节目中告诉主持人乔纳森·卡尔（Jonathan Karl）。
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.”
“我会与任何能推进我竞选承诺的人会面，让金钱退出政治、把钱装进民众腰包、通过全民医保，”他继续说道。“我说过：如果他想通过‘特朗普全民医保’，保障每个人的医疗，并像他在所有事情上那样把自己的名字印上去，我奉陪到底。”“看看他是否想这么做。目前没有任何接触。我乐意与他坐下来，谈谈如何为刚刚选举我的密歇根州选民服务，”他总结道。
“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.
特朗普曾多次攻击埃尔-萨耶德的家庭背景和信仰。在一次竞选集会上，总统告诉支持者，埃尔-萨耶德将是“在被允许进入参议院之前，必须通过金属探测器安检的唯一参议员”。在集会前的一条Truth Social帖子中，特朗普称埃尔-萨耶德为“穆斯林兄弟会的圣战成员”，并补充说，他认为这位当选参议员希望“我们的国家实行沙里亚法”。在大选日前几天，埃尔-萨耶德反击道：“我每天都会过金属探测器。你去过一次测谎仪……这就成交了。”
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.”
这位密歇根州当选参议员愿意与总统合作，此前得克萨斯州当选参议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico，民主党-得克萨斯州）也表达了与特朗普及“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）运动在平价医疗保健问题上合作的类似意愿。
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.
“如果总统想同我或任何民主党人合作以扩大医疗保健覆盖范围，我随时奉陪，”塔拉里科说，并补充称，他同样愿意帮助“建设数百万套新住房”以及“削减繁文缛节”。塔拉里科表示，他希望中期选举能成为特朗普及其政府的“警钟”，促使他们“改弦易辙”。
“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.”