Donald Trump appears poised to announce a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, due to expire at the end of December, while setting new limits on who is eligible to receive the tax credits, according to reports.
Without an extension of Covid-19-era Obamacare subsidies, insurance premiums for nearly 22 million American citizens threaten to more than double early next year, a point made repeatedly by Democrats during the recent 43-day government shutdown, who refused to sign a stopgap spending bill that did not address the problem.
But the Democrats got nothing!
Except restoring SNAP, rehiring everyone and guaranteeing back pay even after they shutdown again in January.
No one was actually going to lose their jobs…what they did was illegal. Back pay was also a guarantee…that’s just how shutdowns work. And there was $26B in funds available for the federal government to use for SNAP…they just acted like they didn’t know how to access it.
The Democrats gave away their leverage for things that were already going to happen.
Sure, but besides SNAP, rehiring, back pay, and the aqueducts, what have the Democrats ever done for us? The roads go without saying.