On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) responded to arguments that Democrats turned down the opportunity to make the Affordable Care Act subsidies run longer so they can’t blame Republicans by saying that
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Democratic U.S. Senate nominee former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper stated that “because the Republican Congress refused to extend the federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, we’ve got almost 200,000
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) discussed a potential budget supplemental due to Iran and said that the money spent on Iran could have funded “a year extension of the ACA tax credits, right? Like,
During MS NOW’s election coverage on Tuesday, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper argued that there need to be ACA subsidies “because we’ve lost so many people on the Affordable Care Act who can no longer
During NewsNation’s State of the Union coverage on Tuesday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said that part of the Democratic Party’s agenda is to extend tax credits to “make sure that the Affordable Care Act policies remain affordable.” Host Leland
Sen. Bernie Moreno said on Wednesday that Republicans will soon issue their “best and final” offer to tackle the expired enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) said that “Democrats are moving the needle” and got a change on healthcare, stating that “the government was shut down because Republicans refused to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) stated that even if Affordable Care Act subsidies are extended, “we’re still going to have an affordability crisis in our country. Health insurance premiums are still going to be too
On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) stated that some Republicans voting to extend ACA subsidies is “a little too little, too late since the tax credits had already expired.” Host Ali Vitali asked,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) stated that President Donald Trump urging Republicans to be flexible on taxpayer funding of abortion is “helpful” to getting a deal on Obamacare subsidies. Co-host Joe Mathieu asked,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) argued that the Affordable Care Act tax credits should be extended “so people’s health insurance premiums are affordable, at least more affordable than they are right now.” Krishnamoorthi said,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to a question on if he’ll rule out another government shutdown over Obamacare subsidies by saying that a three-year extension put forward by Democrats is
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) said that he didn’t want to extend Obamacare subsidies at all because the law should have been fixed by Democrats by then but “They wanted to extend it and
On Wednesday’s “MS NOW Reports,” New Mexico State House Speaker Rep. Javier Martínez (D) said that the state has “far planned to make the Affordable Care Act better” through an “Affordability Fund” and Obamacare works, but needs subsidies “so that
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) argued for extending Obamacare subsidies for one year because that would be the easiest way to get Republicans on board with a compromise deal as the subsidies are due to
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) stated that he agrees with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) when Cassidy says that Obamacare subsidies “just go to pay off the health insurance companies. There’s some truth to that.”
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) responded to a question on whether Democrats should shut the government down over healthcare by saying that he doesn’t want a shutdown, but “it’s gotten to that situation
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) said that “the American people know that Democrats pursued the Affordable Care Act” and “Without the subsidy, premiums are skyrocketing. And they know who’s to blame.” Landsman said, “The
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) said that the entire Affordable Care Act should be looked at, but we also have to “understand that it’s going to be a heck of a lot more expensive
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) stated that Democrats “have concerns” about waste, fraud, and abuse with Obamacare subsidies, but we should have a clean extension of them right now and then deal
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) responded to a question on whether the need for Obamacare subsidies shows that the Affordable Care Act isn’t driving costs down by saying that “I can
A discharge petition to force a vote on an extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire passed the House on Wednesday.
Democrats are fighting efforts to reduce the skyrocketing costs of Obamacare while gaslighting Americans on the failures of COVID-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies, Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) argued that an extension of “affordable healthcare tax credits” is needed so “we can extend the Affordable Care Act in a way that protects and does not
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday found that the House Republican healthcare reform package, which is slated for a Wednesday vote, lowers premiums by 11 percent and would save $35.6 billion.
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies were made temporary “not because they were intended to be temporary.” It was just because that was what they had to do
On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Velshi,” host Ali Velshi and Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) stated that the issue of Obamacare subsidies expiring wouldn’t be a problem if there was universal healthcare. Lee said, “[W]e have people who will not
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) responded to a question on Republican criticisms of the Affordable Care Act by stating that “If we extended the tax credits, it’s affordable.” Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “We’ve
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said that the tax credits are needed to keep the Affordable Care Act affordable, the healthcare system as a whole is “a mess.” And “if it was up
During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of “Power to the People with Darius Pridgen,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) argued that President Donald Trump is “crippling the healthcare industry” by not extending tax subsidies for Obamacare. Hochul said,
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) stated that if legislation he has proposed to extend ACA subsidies doesn’t pass, it’s not the beginning of the end for the Affordable Care Act, it’s “the beginning of
On Thursday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) responded to a question on why the Affordable Care Act needs taxpayer subsidies by saying that “Obamacare has been working.” And “The affordability crisis is a reality. You can’t afford
On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) responded to a question on whether subsidies have to keep being increased for the Affordable Care Act because it didn’t lower costs by saying that costs have gone up
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) blamed Republicans for not extending Obamacare subsidies and defended the sunset clause for them by saying that “Sunset clauses are pretty normal in legislation so you can
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) said the healthcare system “is broken and needs a lot of work,” and complained that “The only plan I’ve ever seen from Republicans is repeal the Affordable Care
On Wednesday’s CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to a question on a possible compromise legislation on extending Obamacare subsidies by saying that Republicans will attach “anti-abortion riders, which would even go further to take
On Wednesday’s CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) talking about compromises on Obamacare subsidies that Democrats can support by saying that “the only real way for the Republicans to avoid the
Wednesday, during an appearance on FBN’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) reacted to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on Obamacare subsidies fraud, as he prepared to chair a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the subject.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) responded to a question on how Democrats can prove they can actually deliver on affordability by saying that Democrats learned their lesson from the 2024 election
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) responded to criticism from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) that the Democrats’ policy on health care just enriches insurance companies by saying, “You cannot get to where
