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Dulcinea

(9,193 posts) Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:10 AM Sunday

'It's a new world with Trump': Inside Democrats' shutdown gamble

(CNN) Still locked out of power in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party are seizing on a fresh battle with President Donald Trump: a high-stakes gamble over this month’s government funding deadline.

With a shutdown on the line, Schumer and other top Democrats in Congress are vowing to play hardball against Trump. One of the party’s biggest demands: They want Republican leaders to commit to billions of dollars in enhanced Obamacare subsidies that would otherwise expire at the end of the year.

“Donald Trump would rather shut down the government than even talk to Democrats about lowering the cost of health care for Americans,” Schumer told reporters on Friday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-trump-inside-democrats-shutdown-110006479.html

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It is not a gamble. There is nothing to lose when you already lost it. If lostincalifornia Sunday #1

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1. It is not a gamble. There is nothing to lose when you already lost it. If

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Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:57 AM

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Democrats voted with republicans to prevent the shutdown, millions of people will lose their healthcare through the ACA because they couldn’t afford the premiums without the subsidies. On the other hand if Democrats don’t join republicans to keep the government open because the republicans won’t extend the subsidies, the millions of people would still lose their coverage, but this time it is because of the republicans exclusively.

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