Posted on 10/07/2025 12:12:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) touted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, as he doubled down on his opposition to funding the government without addressing the expiring tax credits.
In remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Democratic leader read aloud from part of a social media post in which Greene said she’s “absolutely disgusted” that health insurance premiums could double if the ACA subsidies expire at the end of the year, breaking with her party on an issue at the center of the government shutdown standoff.
“I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” Greene wrote in the part of the post Schumer read aloud.
“So hold on to your hats,” Schumer continued in his floor remarks, after reading the post. “I think this is the first time I said this, but, on this issue, Representative Greene said it perfectly.”
“Representative Greene is absolutely right,” he added.
Greene, in her post on Monday night, made clear she does not support the ACA and thinks the entire health insurance system is flawed. But she criticized her party’s leadership for failing to make the expiring tax credits, which will affect many GOP constituents, more of a priority.
“Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!” she wrote, adding, “WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ABSOLUTELY INSANE COST OF INSURANCE FOR AMERICANS.”
Schumer, in his remarks on Tuesday, blamed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for the shutdown and sharply criticized Johnson for refusing...
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Between Massie and Schumer, she’s really nailing the endorsements
Abuse was built into obamacare, with it scheduled to get worse every year, after he left office. Still hangs around your neck, Ovomit!
What the Dems want go BEYOND just giving health care to illegals, they also want to basically make the BBB null and void, they want NPR and PBS to be refunded, given trans surgeries to minors, sending BILLIONS to foreign countries, basically they just want to make the BBB totally useless
Schumer is just waging his jawbone. The House already approved the CR.
Of course she’s right.
If there’s and issue with states cheating to provide benefits to illegals...go after that with gusto. Put some folks in prison.
But there’s millions of natural born Americans that depend on that subsidy to help them purchase health insurance.
America First does not care about Conservative Orthodoxy. Conservative Orthodoxy supported all the offshoring/”Free trade”, open borders and endless wars that helped to create the mess we’re in.
Green was saying she wants to repeal the whole ACA, not continue to fund it.
Schumer has no right to complain. Where were the Democrats (I can’t find who made this list):
When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two-tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
When they passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine, you said nothing!
When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
When chemicals polluted the water in East Palestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
When billionaire and anti-American George Soros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps, you said nothing!
When they spent our tax dollars on inmates transition surgeries, you said nothing!
When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
When they gave free money, food and 5-star hotel lodging to illegals, you said nothing!
When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
When they covered up Biden’s rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
When they accosted the Jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
When they spent $45 million dollars on “Diversity and Inclusion” scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
When they let men play women’s sports, you said nothing!
When they chanted “Death to America” and burned our flag, you said nothing!
When they shut down our energy production and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
When Joe Biden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
When they let a Chinese Spy Ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
When American citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
When Facebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
When Fauci and the WHO peddled covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
When they sealed the January 6th commission files or “lost them”, you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti-American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears and all your fake hysteria now. For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts and you said nothing!
Now, it’s our turn!!!!
“I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” Greene wrote in the part of the post Schumer read aloud. Well Greene, how about I have to pay for Medicare out of my SS direct deposit? I worked 50 years for this? I don’t get any tax credits.
Marge has been into Candace Owens stash again or sumthin
She’s gotta go
The ACA is just free money for insurance companies, granted with a messy over-regulated process, but very profitable none the less.
A Bronze care plan for one person runs $1800 per month. What does that cover? It covers well care and routine checkups. It has a $13,000 deductible, no RX coverage, and not everyone takes it.
We had to buy it for my wife to avoid not being insured (penalty). We carried it for two years. I'm so glad we're through with it in December.
The only possible benefit is negotiated provider fees for defined services, but we found you can negotiate that stuff on your own. Remember, you're on the hook for $1800 a month, plus the co-pays or coinsurance. One urgent care visit ordered by your primary care physician for a few hours can easily land you a $5,000 bill and all you got was an IV, a chest x-ray, and a flu test. We came to the providers business office and worked it down to $1600.
Very few people understand the system and how it's rigged.
The government should not be involved in health care.
Taking money from me to buy an aspirin for you is communism.
Health care is unaffordable by design to entice the masses into communism.
Save America - buy your own aspirin.
She’s also now a favorite of TYT / Cenk’s show and has appeared there as a featured guest.
Keep demanding and keep the govt “shut”. I like it “shut” and you’re getting nothing.
“The government should not be involved in health care.
Taking money from me to buy an aspirin for you is communism.”
The government IS and will continue to be in the healthcare business.
In the extreme, ANY TAX for any reason is communism. If that’s the way you want to view it.
57% of the MAGA base oppose eliminating the subsidies according to a KFF poll taken a few days ago.
The system is desperate need of reform to bring market forces back into healthcare.
And don’t forget, thanks to IRMAA, if you dare to have too much income, your Medicare premiums go even higher!
That is the way I view it.
Government involvement in health care, retirement, subsidies of any sort is communist and anti-American.
People who expect their fellow man to pay their way have been drawn into a communist world view and are destroying our Republic.
Get rid of healthcare. Make everyone pay cash. You’ll see heathcare come crashing down in price.
She will loseher seat, I promise you.
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