No matter how long the government remains shut down, Democrats have demands for the Republican majorities and administration. The standoff is the result of an impasse over COVID-19-era premium healthcare credits for those buying plans on the Obamacare exchanges.
When Democrats pushed the American Rescue Plan through Congress in March 2021, they did so strictly along party lines. Not a single Republican voted in favor of the bill. There was no attempt at bipartisanship. Democrats had the votes to send it to then-President Joe Biden’s desk themselves. It was a pandemic-era firehose of new federal money, $2.1 trillion, hailed by the Democratic Party as the biggest burst of government relief since the New Deal.
Buried among stimulus checks, child tax credits, and business loans was
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