The enhanced subsidies for people who buy their health insurance through exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act have officially expired, and Democratic lawmakers are ready to make sure voters know whom to blame going into the midterm elections.
Politico reported Friday that while Democrats in Congress are still pushing their Republican colleagues to allow a vote on renewing the enhanced subsidies, they have mostly settled on a political strategy of going scorched-earth on the GOP for letting them expire in the first place.
Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) told Politico that Americans who see their monthly premiums skyrocket in the wake of the subsidies’ expiration will take out their anger on the GOP.
Dems will shut it down just long enough to hurt people, but as soon as the airports become affected, and corporations can’t move their operatives around the country, they’ll fold.
Big difference this time is that holiday time is over. I’m not so sure the corpos care a whole lot about keeping the airlines available for Valentine’s Day.
Exactly the point. If it was the MAGAs at war, they would happily leave the airports closed over the Holidays, and try to blame Dems for it.
But reverse it, and the Dems will only fight until it gets inconvenient for the wealthy, them fold over nothing, and take the blame themselves.
MEDIOCRE!