After teasing a plan by President Donald Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies—currently on track to end within weeks—the White House has indefinitely delayed the announcement under pressure from congressional Republicans, MS NOW reported on Monday.

The last-minute change of plan signals the GOP’s priorities: the party has fought to cut or repeal the ACA since it entered law in 2010, and was uncompromising in opposing the subsidies during the record-breaking government shutdown that ended earlier in November.

The last thing Republican elected officials want to see, the Center for American Progress’ Bobby Kagan posted on social media Monday, is a deal that protects ACA subsidies.

“That’s why they didn’t extend them in OBBBA, and that’s why they kept calling them a ‘December problem’ even though open enrollment began on November 1,” Kagan, the group’s senior director for federal budget policy, wrote.

  • finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    1 day ago

    Maybe stop vehemently denying all of the good that our party has done for us, all the good it can do with more power.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      10 hours ago

      Which party? I can’t see where either party has done anything for us. The Dems have done the very bare minimum, if that, and the MAGAs are downright gleefully treasonous and destructive.

      Aside from a very few progressive reps, the American people don’t have anybody standing up for them.

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      1 day ago

      Have some dignity. You deserve better than the lowest common denominator “done for you”.