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no_hypocrisy

(53,512 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 06:12 AM Oct 7

Republican Game of Chicken [View all]

Trump and congressional Republicans are running out the clock.

Within a few weeks, the ACA subsidies will be a moot point.

Because the rates for 2026 will have been set and those rates will be based upon the exclusion of the subsidies.

IOW, the rates will potentially double.

And once those rates have increased, the Democrats will have lost their bargaining power for that issue.

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