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ashredux

(2,882 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:22 PM Dec 11

Senate blocks ACA subsidies extension! [View all]

The GOP voted against extending help with healthcare for millions of American, will be the final nail in their coffin. This is not the price of eggs going up $.50, or the price of gas. This will decimate many families, and many of the MAGA folks. There’s no way the GOP can blame this on the Democrats, as hard as they try.

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Senate blocks ACA subsidies extension! [View all] ashredux Dec 11 OP

they've had decades to come up with a "plan" Skittles Dec 11 #1

No way! ABC123Easy Dec 11 #2

The only saving grace for that bit of bloodless lunacy might be that they lose 50 House seats Volaris Dec 11 #3

Hope you're right ABC123Easy Dec 11 #19

How would continuing the shutdown have realistically changed the vote? EdmondDantes_ Dec 11 #23

The hypothetical is that if they had waited 10 more days or so until holiday air traffic was locked up Volaris Dec 11 #29

Not so fast ABC123Easy Dec 12 #30

That still doesn't attempt to demonstrate how you get to them voting for it with a longer shutdown EdmondDantes_ Dec 12 #32

It does ABC123Easy Dec 12 #35

"We have a plan" sez the TOP (tRunp's Own Party) TexLaProgressive Dec 11 #4

Republicans will end up killing people. Emile Dec 11 #5

Ending the shutdown guaranteed this result. I'm losing my health insurance Arazi Dec 11 #6

There was one poster that basically tried guilting others for opposing the capitulation fujiyamasan Dec 11 #24

No one could have seen that coming. BlueTsunami2018 Dec 11 #7

here again are the 8 Dem caucus Senators and the 6 Dem House members who caved in on the shutdown and got us to here Celerity Dec 11 #8

Lets not kid ourselves.... we would be here either way. FascismIsDeath Dec 11 #11

We were assured Dem leadership knew what they were doing Arazi Dec 11 #13

And of course we knew Thune was doing nothing more than amusing himself. FascismIsDeath Dec 11 #15

I disagree with that. Welcome to DU btw. Celerity Dec 11 #14

So if you disagree with that... FascismIsDeath Dec 11 #16

We will never know because of the 8 Dem Senate cavers. The polls were trending more & more against Trump and the Rehugs Celerity Dec 11 #18

I appreciate all the links but I am fully aware of all of the condemnation. FascismIsDeath Dec 11 #21

We need to hammer this next year moose65 Dec 11 #9

On the bright side SocialDemocrat61 Dec 11 #10

Ffs, people are going to fucking die because of this Arazi Dec 11 #12

That may happen regardless SocialDemocrat61 Dec 11 #22

They had control of congress a few years ago when they made them temporary with an expiration date. MichMan Dec 11 #25

So? SocialDemocrat61 Dec 11 #27

The point is that we made the extended subsidies expire when we had the majority EdmondDantes_ Dec 12 #34

I understand all that SocialDemocrat61 Dec 12 #36

Don't get sick, folks. MustBeTheBooz Dec 11 #17

Can we say a DEMOCRATIC PARTY Senate? ProudMNDemocrat Dec 11 #20

No surprise! January 30 , another repeat of the government closing Bread and Circuses Dec 11 #26

How many people Traildogbob Dec 11 #28

My heart goes out to you in your Jspur Dec 12 #33

Damn them. Their cruelty has been/is heinous. electric_blue68 Dec 12 #31