After rejecting continuing resolutions 14 times, including clean resolutions that change nothing about federal spending, it looks like Democrats are looking for an exit path out of the shutdown. Given the timing, does this indicate the shutdown was a political tool to help with the elections? After all, it doesn’t seem logical that they would ask for temporary COVID era insurance premium subsidies to be extended, years after the pandemic, when they were intentionally set to expire. That doesn’t seem like a reason to hold the government hostage. Note that the original Obamacare premium subsidy program is unaffected and would remain in place regardless.
bigyabai•1h ago
> That doesn’t seem like a reason to hold the government hostage.
Maybe to you. ACA subsidies are important to millions of Americans, and not expensive enough to the taxpayer to warrant cutting. I support a shutdown until an amicable solution can be found, there's no reason we should be cutting corporate tax rates while levying the cost of American healthcare.
SilverElfin•1h ago
ACA subsidies that were put into place with ACA itself, are still intact. Literally every single continuing resolution that the GOP has put forth does not touch them. What’s going away automatically at the end of the year (again not being touched by funding proposals) is an additional set of subsidies that were added as a COVID emergency measure. The funding resolution doesn’t do anything about those either - they just happen to expire at the end of this year, which is completely expected. After all, they were temporary.
Just to reiterate in case it isn’t clear, one side (Republicans) is not making any changes. The other side is refusing to fund the government in a way that makes no changes. Instead, they’re asking for a change and in an odd way (by extending emergency measures) rather than by passing legislation that, for example, changes how the ACA works.
slater•1h ago
Still trying that "it's the democrats' fault" angle, huh?
bdangubic•1h ago
gottado what you gotta do… :)
Avshalom•1h ago
Fun fact: republicans hold a majority in both chambers. The government shut down because republicans won't vote for their own bills.
SilverElfin•1h ago
bigyabai•1h ago
Maybe to you. ACA subsidies are important to millions of Americans, and not expensive enough to the taxpayer to warrant cutting. I support a shutdown until an amicable solution can be found, there's no reason we should be cutting corporate tax rates while levying the cost of American healthcare.
SilverElfin•1h ago
Just to reiterate in case it isn’t clear, one side (Republicans) is not making any changes. The other side is refusing to fund the government in a way that makes no changes. Instead, they’re asking for a change and in an odd way (by extending emergency measures) rather than by passing legislation that, for example, changes how the ACA works.
slater•1h ago
bdangubic•1h ago
Avshalom•1h ago