Let's talk about chaos in the GOP House over the ACA deadline.... - Belle of the Ranch

Well, howdy there internet people. It's
Belle again.
So, today we're going to talk about
chaos in the GOP House over the ACA
deadline.
We have a question we're going to get to
at the end of this, but first, we have
to go through the timeline that leads up
to the question.
Early yesterday, Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson said he would not allow a
House vote to extend expiring Affordable
Care Act subsidies. This week, the ACA
subsidies are causing a lot of discord
in the Republican party.
Representative Mike Lawler of New York,
for lack of a better term, straight up
lost it, saying, quote, "I think it's
idiotic not to have an up or down vote
on this issue. it's political malpractice.
He went on to say that it was absolute
BS.
Then a group of vulnerable Republicans
confronted Speaker Johnson in a closed
door meeting. Lawler went on to explain
allowing the expiration was a quote
mistake.
Then the report on the GOP healthcare
patchwork came out that said it would
cause a 100,000 more people to be
uninsured each year until 2035. In short,
the GOP health care plan doesn't work.
By the end of the day, there was still
no resolution about a vote on extending
the ACA subsidies with many Republicans
looking at using a discharge petition to
force a vote on the issue. And that
brings us to the question, quote,
Belle, why on earth are Republicans
doing this to themselves with the ACA?
It's political insanity. It's like the
leadership is trying to cause them to
lose the midterms. Destroying the health
care of millions isn't going to be
forgotten by the midterms. Please, I'm
an independent voter that leaned
Republican until the midterms of Trump's
first term. Then I realized he was bat.
It goes on from there, but you get the
point. He's not a fan of Trump's. Here's
the answer in simplest terms.
The Republican party went through the
one big beautiful bill saying the ACA
subsidies weren't important. Then they
shut down the government to avoid
extending the ACA subsidies.
If they were to suddenly agree to pass
the subsidies, they'll be admitting they
were wrong the entire time and caused
untold amounts of damage for no reason.
Now, realistically, they should
understand that walking out and saying,
"Hey, we were wrong." And extending the
subsidies will be far less damaging than
letting them expire.
But it's a Republican party that has
transformed their entire policy to cater
to the ego of one man.
The entire holdup here and the reason
millions may lose health insurance is
because Trump will look bad and it will
become clear that the one big beautiful
bill was a sellout of the working class.
I honestly thought Republicans in
Congress would have avoided doubling
down on what is clearly a bad move, but
we're days away from the subsidies
expiring and the leadership is still
intractable.
Ego. It's Trump's ego. Your health care
hinges on Trump's ego.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have
a good day.