In classic shutdown politics, this might have laid a decisive trap for their Republican opponents, as the human cost of the showdown mounts to create a political imperative for the party in power to find an off-ramp. The shutdown started three weeks ago when Senate Democrats refused to back a seven-week spending bill, using the end of government funding as leverage to try to force Republicans to extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies and to push for a rollback of Medicaid cuts contained in Trump’s big domestic agenda law. The article is over a thousand words and not one mention of the fact that the Democrats want the taxpayers to pay for illegals’ healthcare.
Author: CNN via AOL.com
Published at: 2025-10-19 20:35:12
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