Schumer announces three-year extension plan for Obamacare subsidies
The healthcare issue comes in the wake of a record government shutdown that saw Democrats attempt to extract a reversal of cuts to Medicaid and other healthcare programs.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced that the Democrats would support a three-year extension of the expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
To be sure, it is not all ACA subsidies set to expire, but merely the COVID-19-era expanded subsidies. Republicans, for their part, have struggled to articulate their own plan.
“This is the bill, a clean three-year extension of ACA tax credits, that Democrats will bring to the floor of the Senate for a vote next Thursday, and every single Democrat will support it,” Schumer said, according to Politico. “Republicans have one week to decide where they stand.”
The healthcare issue comes in the wake of a record government shutdown that saw Democrats attempt to extract a reversal of cuts to Medicaid and other healthcare programs.
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.
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