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Dulcinea

(9,131 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 07:17 AM Yesterday

The GOP cut parts of Obamacare. Now it's at the center of a funding fight.

(Washington Post) Little noticed in the Republican effort to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending plan this summer was the accomplishment of a long-held party goal: rolling back significant portions of the Affordable Care Act.

But now, the battle over Obamacare is back. Democrats are demanding that at least some of the cuts to former president Barack Obama’s signature law be reversed in exchange for their support of a funding bill, while Republicans are daring Democrats to risk shutting down the government over the issue.

Looming above it all is growing nervousness among some Republicans about the political consequences of millions of people losing health insurance as soon as January - and in the months ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-cut-parts-obamacare-now-123916385.html

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The GOP cut parts of Obamacare. Now it's at the center of a funding fight. (Original Post) Dulcinea Yesterday OP
Just imagine gab13by13 Yesterday #1
you got that right Skittles Yesterday #2

gab13by13

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1. Just imagine
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 07:25 AM
Yesterday

Had not Chuck Schumer convinced a handful, a minority of Senators to approve the CR back in March, Democrats could have shut down the government until they got protections for not just a part of Obamacare but for Social Security, for Medicare, for Medicaid, and the American people would have been behind them.

Worst decision in my lifetime was made by a handful of Senate Democrats who bucked the majority.

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