Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.
Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reelection are scrambling for a last-minute fix to renew the enhanced federal health care subsidies keeping costs down. But even if party leaders and Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days — and there’s no sign of that happening — many conservatives are likely to revolt.
Democrats have vowed to hammer the GOP in the midterms if they allow the federal aid to expire, but many on the right expect the political fallout to be minimal, or even to backfire on Democrats. For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.
It’s a GOOD THING we have Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to Look OUT for us! I’m SURE the Conversation they TRADED AWAY LITERALLY EVERYTHING FOR is going to happen Soon!
Are you trying to paint the Democrats as the bad guys here? It’s their fault that the Republicans are stripping away safety nets?
Edit: I guess the answer here is “yes”.
I believe it’s a reference to the very real fact Chuck Schumer gave us a month of government shutdown to save ACA subsidies and then gave up with nothing to show for but a vague promise of a floor vote on the subsidies in January.
But Schumer didn’t give up? Other senators did…
Either Schumer didn’t want it, in which case he’s lost control of the caucus and should no longer be minority leader
Or he privately did, but publicly denounced it, meaning the same as above.
Either way, it’s ultimately his responsibility that this happened.
But surely it’s just a total coincidence that every non Republican who voted yes is not up for reelection in 2026, right? /s
I’m in VA. Tim Kaine voted yes. I’ve messaged him demanding an explanation and that coward fuckface piece of shit still hasn’t responded. I contacted my other Senator, Mark Warner, and asked him to publicly denounce Kaine’s vote or else I would be supporting a primary opponent. He gave a bullshit response about supporting federal workers. So I’ll be looking for somebody with a fucking spine to replace his bitch-ass. I’m sick of these fucking losers selling us out to fascists. They’re gonna push us all too far, and the most desperate people will do unthinkable things, and they’ll wonder how it all got to be so chaotic and unstable and bloody.
And they wonder why Luigi was so popular.
Who do you think directed them to?
Look, I’m usually the first one to call out people who blame Democrats for bullshit that Republicans get away with…
However, in this case, the Democrats completely shit the bed by ending the shutdown for literally nothing, one week after Democrats won decidedly in several elections across the nation.
So yeah, in this case, fuck the Democrats for letting it come to this.