Washington – on the verge Turning offOn Monday, the two best democrats leader met with President Donald Trump in the White House and called him to agree to expand Obamacare subsidies, which expire at the end of the year in the bill to maintain the government open.
The leader of the minority in the Senate Chuck Schumer, Dn.Y., said that they had to explain the inevitable consequences of Trump's inaction. People who receive medical insurance through Obamacare He will begin to receive notifications In the coming days, warning that their bonuses will soon grow if Congress does not expand the means.
“He did not know that the Americans would pay – so many Americans, tens of millions of Americans – will pay a huge increase in their health care accounts,” Sumer told reporters. “And he did not know that the real effect of this began on October 1, and not on December 31. So it seemed from his language of the body and some things that he said that he did not know about the consequences. “
“We told the president that he could solve the problem,” telling the leaders of the Republicans “just take our position” to expand the subsidies on Obamacare, or the law on affordable medical care (ACA), and “place it in his own expense,” Schumer said.
This became the central requirement of the Democrats in exchange for their votes in order to finance the government that will turn off on Tuesday at midnight if there is no transaction.
Ironically, this can also improve the prospects of the Republican Party in the intermediate elections of 2026, if the Republicans agree to expand subsidies, According to some republican questionnairesField if the awards for medical insurance took off next year, These polls are notedEvil voters tend to blame the party in power.
Republican Party Provisor John Mclaflin spoke about the expansion of Obamacare in recent opinion Entitled “Increase in healthcare tax poses the greatest medium -term threat to the Republican Party.”
“Working with President Trump for more than ten years to transform the Republican Party from the Party of the Loser Popular Clubs to the winning part of most middle-class working Americans, these are our Maga voters who need this tax loan,” Maclaflin wrote. “Middle class workers need affordable medical care.”
Nevertheless, the leaders of the Republican Party are adamant that they will not allow this in this bill.
“This is purely teachings with hostages in terms of democrats,” said the leader of the majority in the Senate John Tong, RS.D. After a meeting on Monday in the White House. “We are ready to sit down and work with them on some problems that they want to talk about, whether it is the expansion of premium tax benefits with reforms – we are glad to have this conversation. But at the moment it is the theft of the American people. ”
Behind the scenes, Republicans are discussing ways to structure the expansion of improved subsidies, but with changes that would reduce the current annual predictable cost of $ 35 billion and have wider attractiveness in the party. But this would be as a separate bill, not attached to the short -term degree of financing.
Republican ideas include reducing subsidies in a few years, creating new income restrictions for the right to participate in the right to participate and strengthen Obamacare money, which will be insurers who cover abortion.
Senator Mike Rounds, RS.D., said that it is important that everyone “pays a little” for his medical insurance coating. He said that reinforced subsidies should go down for three years, and not continue constantly.
But he insisted that Congress could not just allow the funds to end, because people who lose lighting will have no alternative.
“This is the only game in the city for them, this is Obamacare,” he said. “The rest of the separate market was destroyed.”
Senator Lindsay Graham, RS.C., who is close to Trump, said that, he believes that his party “is going to assemble, I hope, a working group to fix ACA.”
“The ACA fight continues. There are many Republicans who would like to find any common place, ”said Graham NBC News on Monday.
When asked if Trump is one of them, Graham replied: “I do not know.”
He added: “I think so. I mean, as soon as you understand the effect in November, I think that many Republicans want to find a common language. ”
In addition, abortion enemies, such as SBA Pro-Life America, lobby of the Republicans, so as not to distribute Obamacare funds if they are not tier with additional restrictions on money, going to abortion, two sources reported.
Senator John Cornin, R-texas, said that new restrictions related to ACA financing will be part of any discussion.
“This is important for our side,” he said.
But many Republicans, especially in the ward, say that Obamacare financing should expire on schedule on December 31. They have a backup from a coalition of more than 30 conservative groups that wrote a letter on Friday in which Trump was a subsidy of the era of things, which “should always be temporary.”
Meanwhile, democratic operatives are already planning to score the Republicans in the elections in 2026 if they refuse to extend the tax benefits of Obamacare, which expire at the end of this year.
“Republicans continue to attack the affordable health care, refusing to finance ACA subsidies,” said CJ Warnke, a representative of the PAC of the Democratic Chamber with the Democratic Chamber. “In 2026, we plan to ensure that the Republicans of a vulnerable house are held accountable for the fact that advertising attacks them for protecting medical care, rewarding the elite with mass tax benefits.”
In the strange world of Obamacare policy, some democrats say that the Republican Party actually rejects an offer that will save the Republicans from political harm.
“The position of the Republican Party is a political equivalent of violation of their own leg, and then prepared a blockade to stop an ambulance,” said Jesse Ferguson, a long -standing democratic strategist and former senior democratic committee of the Democratic Congress Committee.
The republican strategist working on racing in 2026 said that the party was torn on this issue, and that it will be postponed to the candidates to decide what is better for their districts.
“We do not advise any participant to do this,” the strategist said. “We know that there will be numerous Republicans on the opposite sides of this problem.”
This is a “politically good thing” for members of the swing-instrument, such as a member of the House of Representatives of Jen Kigans, R-Va., Who supported the annual extension to take this position, added a republican strategist. “But for hard conservatives it will be a difficult thing.”
Some progressive lawyers say that the political danger to the Republicans is the reason why the democrats should demand even more than the continuation of ACA financing in the bill to prevent stopping.
“That's why the Republicans in the front line strive for a short-term expansion, so that they can go through the intervals, and then let them expire,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of a progressive group, careless. “I would consider one or two years extension as more or less the position of the Republicans.”
He said that the Democrats should insist on the “constant extension” of ACA money, as well as the restoration of Trump Medicaid and protection from the use of the administration. ”Reviews“In order not to spend the money that was sent by Congress.
