El-Sayed Says He Is Open to Working With Trump on Affordable Healthcare

Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) said he is open to working with President Trump on affordable healthcare, according to a report from The Hill by Mira Bhakta. The report said the two men had traded jabs while El-Sayed was on the campaign trail, and it stated that his remarks came despite those exchanges.

According to The Hill, El-Sayed said of the president, "Look, I’ve never met the man." The report's summary goes on to describe Trump as the president of the United States and El-Sayed as the U.S. senator-elect from the state of Michigan, but the excerpt available for this account ends partway through his remarks.

The summary does not identify the specific comments that prompted the exchanges between the two men. It also does not describe any proposal, bill, or agreement on healthcare that they have discussed. Those points are not stated in the material available here, so this account does not report them.

The headline of the report, which describes El-Sayed as open to working with the president on affordable healthcare, reflects the position he stated in the excerpt. The Hill credits Mira Bhakta with the report, which the source data lists as published on November 8, 2026.

Because the available material is a partial summary, the full context of El-Sayed's comments, including any further detail on healthcare policy, cannot be confirmed from it. No other outlet's reporting on the remarks was supplied for this account, so additional details would require further sourcing before they could be reported.

Sources: The Hill: El-Sayed open to working with Trump on affordable healthcare.