The White House has shown little urgency in extending the subsidies until shutdown ends.
Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration of key federal subsidies.
The lack of direction comes from the top, with Trump not providing clear guidance to his party on how he wants to deal with the expiring subsidies that could result in dramatic out-of-pocket price hikes for enrollees.
This is the biggest welfare scandal in the US right now. Congress is refusing to go to work, but still getting fully paid.
Quaint that you think any of them need a paycheck anyway. They’re well beyond ever needing any wage.
It’s not about need, it’s always about greed. And they hate working for their actual pay.
Public servants above a certain level need to be restricted to investments in index funds, the insider trading nets them more than kickbacks and PAC donations.
This administration is doing just fine at manipulating index funds.
Really, federal congresspeople shouldn’t need investments at all. A savings account or government bonds are enough. We can pay them a bit more to compensate if needed.
But they shouldn’t have any corporate dependency.