AOC: SHUTDOWN

[Passages]

The U.S. government shut down at 12:01 AM.

This is not a fight over tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We’re not talking about just 15% or 20% increases in people’s premiums.

Healthcare companies are finalizing the premiums that everyday Americans are going to be paying. And we are talking about a doubling of monthly healthcare premiums not even including deductibles, in terms of what people are going to be paying next year, because of a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts that were put together earlier this year.

I don’t know about anybody else, but I do not think this is just about a tax break or small tax extender. This is about fighting for community health centers, and ensuring that we have stability of the American healthcare system.

And when Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American healthcare system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it and fight for it.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

“They want us to blink first, and we have too much to save. Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Chris Hayes as the government heads toward a shutdown.
Sept. 30, 2025
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-want-us-to-blink-first-aoc-on-trump-shutdown-showdown-248788037996