Pirate's Cove

This is what they should have offered to start with before voting to shut down the government

Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, multiple sources told Axios.

Why it matters: Democrats, emboldened by sweeping election victories this week, are adamant that Republicans must make concessions on health care before opening the government.

But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) rejected the offer, calling it a “non-starter.”

“I think it’s an indication that they’re feeling the heat, and they know that their last proposal was unserious and unrealistic,” Thune told reporters. “I just don’t think that it gets anywhere close to what we need to do here.”

The extension should be through December 2026, that way the Dems cannot play games for the 2026 midterms. But, there needs to be language that negotiations to fix this need to happen

The Democratic offer includes adding the ACA tax credit extensions to a package of appropriations bills and a short-term spending bill.

Would those be the add ons to give healthcare to illegal aliens, re-open USAID to make sure taxpayer money gets funneled through donor NGOs, etc?

(The Hill) “It’s terrible,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was on the way to a Senate GOP conference meeting to discuss the path forward.

“The five largest health care companies in America have had a 1,000 percent increase in their stock prices since 2010. We’re flooding these people with money that’s creating inflation,” Graham continued. “The program is broken, and I’m not going to keep giving hundreds of billions of dollars to insurance companies.”

The premiums are going to those companies, who are getting rewarded by Obamacare, while those who get the insurance are getting boned. For all the talk about premiums, let’s not forget that deductibles have been high from the get-go, and getting treatment is limited.