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health care
Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies’ extension: Survey
A new survey has found that a majority of Republicans and Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters back the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits at the center of the government shutdown fight.
The poll, released Friday and conducted by the nonpartisan health policy research organization KFF, indicated that 59 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of supporters of the MAGA movement favor extending the tax credits.
A majority of Democrats an...
Federal health programs under a shutdown
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GOP on shaky ground with claim about Democrats’ shutdown demands
Amid a stalemate over government funding, Republicans have repeatedly accused Democrats of demanding free health care for immigrants in the country illegally in return for their support of a federal funding bill.
It’s a misleading message circulated widely by Republican leaders in the House and Senate, as well as by President Trump and Vice President Vance.
Trump on Monday posted an AI fake of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) saying: “If we giv...
Students for Life: Abortion pill review ‘must go back to the beginning’
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Ocasio-Cortez on shutdown: ‘They want us to blink first’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called on Democrats to not fold on their health insurance demands before true negotiations begin to reopen the government.
“They want us to blink first, and we have too much to save. Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.”
Asked about the “rising sense of alarm about the aggressiveness of th...
Health insurance costs for 22 million in limbo as shutdown begins
As the first government shutdown since 2019 begins, GOP leaders insist any talk of extending COVID-era enhanced subsidies for ObamaCare plans won’t happen until at least mid-November.
“We are not going to be held hostage for over $1 trillion in new spending on a continuing resolution,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Tuesday.
But insurance experts agree: If Republicans have their way, millions of people who buy health insurance through the Af...
Shutdown looms as deal evades Congress
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Schumer: Trump, GOP leaders are ‘divided’ over health insurance subsidies in funding bill
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) said a rift is emerging between President Trump and GOP leaders in Congress about whether to use a short-term government funding bill to prevent health insurance premiums from soaring next year because of the expiration of enhanced subsidies at the end of this year.
“The particular focus was on health care. When we made these arguments it was clear there was a division or possible division between the president and the two Repub...
Lawmakers dig in heels as shutdown deadline looms
Lawmakers from both parties dug in their heels Sunday over government funding demands ahead of a meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders aimed at averting a shutdown this week.
During various interviews on the Sunday political affairs programs, Republican and Democratic leaders signaled that health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year remain a key sticking point.
Democratic leaders have been adamant that Republicans won’t get their...