After Trump O'Care Threats, Dems Signal Potential Gov't Funding Fight Over Subsidies

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By TIERNEY SNEED Published APRIL 13, 2017, 5:15 PM EDT

Democrats are signaling they’re ready to up the ante after President Donald Trump threatened to end certain Obamacare subsidies – and risk a collapse of the individual market – in a push to make the subsidies a major issue in ongoing government funding negotiations.

Congressional Democrats will seek to create a permanent funding mechanism for the insurer subsidies, which are currently the target of a House GOP lawsuit that claims the payments are illegal because they were not explicitly appropriated by Congress.

The potential showdown over funding the government comes after Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he was considering shutting off the billions of dollars in payments to force Democrats to play along with his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

“The President’s comments on stopping the Cost Sharing Reduction payments will increase costs, is a threat to the good health of the American people and a threat to keeping government open,” an aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told TPM Thursday in an email.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/democrats-government-funding-trump-obamacare-subsidies

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Murderer

[duhneece]

15. MY life is at risk if New Mexico's Medicaid subsidies are not funded

You are not being overly dramatic; you are calling things exactly right...and for that, I want to kiss you.
New Mexico is poor and my life depends on Medicaid NOT being turned over entirely to my state.
Our 2 Senators are great, but our US Congressman is Tea Party.

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. So sick to hear this, and mad. It is my hope the citizens of this country

will become so enraged that the GOP will be literally afraid to do the horrible shit they are planning, but it will take millions of us in the streets.

[duhneece]

18. Our Indivible group has been to 2 Town Halls of our so-called Rep

So many of us rely of this for our lives and let him know...it didn't seem to faze him or impact him at all. He just kept talking about getting costs under control.

[Rollo]

2. These subsidies were a godsend not only to the poor, but also unemployed and minimum wage earners

All are groups that Trump apparently has little empathy for, never having had to scrape by or work a real job his whole life.

[kimbutgar]

11. Off topic

Your pictures are hilarious. I forgot about the humping t/p and love the drag queens putin and chump.

[Leghorn21]

3. GO DEMS!! Stick it to this faux fuckin mobster coward!! e n o u g h. eom

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I'm glad they're not caving

I hope I'm not celebrating prematurely.

[ananda]

12. Just say, glad they're not caving .. for now.

Keep the pressure on those Dems, folks!

[still_one]

5. Time to drop another bomb so the MSM can tell us how presidential he is

[dhill926]

8. may be happening sooner than we think....

re: NK.

[still_one]

9. I don't think so, unless NK makes a pre-emptive attack on its neighbors or beyond, and I don't think

that will happen either because they realize they would be toast if that occurred.

[dhill926]

10. hope you're right...

I put nothing past either idiot of a leader...

[elmac]

6. What ever it takes to fight the fascists, do it!

even if you need to shut the government down and destroy the economy. They own it, no matter what happens.

[Honeycombe8]

7. I'm glad to see the Dems sticking up for this. Even if Trump does the unthinkable....

the alternate is a cave-in, and would result in a similar thing (no subsidies) happening, anyway.

[Akamai]

13. As Garrison Keillor said, "If you were in a hospital and were on oxygen, would you want the

finger on the oxygen valve to be Republican or Democrat?

Damn democrats -- they just want to help people! They aren't motivated in helping further enrich billionaires and multimillionaires!

And this is why I am PROUD to be a Democrat!

[DrToast]

14. Good place to take a stand

Let's see if Republicans want to have a government shutdown over this. I think that would be a disaster for them.

[modrepub]

17. How many layoffs

is killing or delaying these subsidies going to cause and how fast will it happen? Nobody seems to realize that all this cutting is going to trigger a lot of reshuffling in the health care industry, which in most rural areas of the US is the major and sometimes only significant employer out there.