The Democrats were furious Monday over eight senators who caved to support a deal to end the government shutdown that does not include the Affordable Care Act subsidies their party had spent weeks fighting for.
The offending lawmakers include Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, and independent Senator Angus King, who claimed that they’d ensured a Senate vote on extending the tax credits. Their capitulation comes after House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted for weeks that he wouldn’t promise them a vote on anything, and even if he does follow through with a vote, it’s unlikely such a measure will pass the House.
Democratic lawmakers slammed their colleagues for forfeiting health care coverage for an estimated 5.1 million Americans by 2034 and increasing premiums across the marketplace.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders railed against the deal while speaking before the Senate Sunday. “If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the Affordable Care Act,” he said. “For certain groups of people, it will be a tripling and a quadrupling of their premiums. There are people who will now be paying 50 percent of their limited incomes for health care. Does anybody in the world think that makes sense?”
They don’t care, they aren’t up for re-election, that’s why Schmuck Schumer had them vote Yes, so he could vote No, and try to pretend that he was shocked by this.
He’s Senate Majority Leader, he not only knew about it, he was steering it. This is 100% him.
Fire the cowardly bitch.
its the same tactic the gop used, collins and murowski used, not surprising they probably are advised behind the scenes.
Oh, yeah, it’s an old trick. Have your lame ducks cast the unpopular votes, so you get what you want, and you can focus your Constituents’ anger toward a useless target.