This Week

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that there is no formal proposal from the White House to defund the Affordable Care Act and instead send money directly to Americans, despite a social media post from President Donald Trump on Saturday promoting such a plan. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday dismissed President Donald Trump's call this weekend for senators to redirect Affordable Care Act funds away from insurance companies and instead be sent "directly to the people," telling ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos that the proposal would undermine the ACA's protections for preexisting conditions. Roundtable: Former New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie; former DNC Chair, Donna Brazile, and Sarah Isgur, Director of Public Affairs of the Justice Department during President Trump's first term, now the Editor of SCOTUSBlog. 

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie said Sunday there could be "a deluge of Republicans" who vote in favor of forcing the Department of Justice to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said it was "a mistake" for the eight Senate Democrats who broke ranks to make a deal with Republicans to end the government shutdown without an extension on Obamacare subsidies. Roundtable: Former DNC chair Donna Brazile, former Bernie Sanders campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, SCOTUSblog editor Sarah Isgur and former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. That's Trump's chief of staff.

Roundtable: ABC News chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce, "New Yorker" staff writer Susan Glasser, Center for American Progress President and CEO Neera Tanden, and former Trump White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said that authorities believe the suspected shooter who they say opened fire on National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., last week might have been radicalized after he arrived in the United States. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday he believes "it's very possible there was a war crime committed" in the administration's first strike against an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea in September. Roundtable: Former DNC chair Donna Brazile, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Democratic strategist Faiz Shakir, and communication analyst and pollster Frank Luntz.