Posted on 12/07/2025 2:57:35 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, one of a handful of House Republicans who won in a district that then-Vice President Kamala Harris carried last fall, has a stark message for his party as the deadline to extend expiring health care subsidies and the midterm elections approach.
…The swing-district Republican said even some of his more conservative colleagues have expressed an interest in his effort to reach a compromise on the ACA subsidies.
“Affordability is such a crisis in this country right now,” he said, explaining that for low- and middle-income constituents, “a significant increase in their premiums is not an option.”
Combating rising costs will be “the issue” of the 2026 elections, Fitzpatrick predicts. He highlighted Trump’s election to a second term and Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in the New York City mayoral race as examples of what happens when voters are motivated by cost-of-living concerns.
Though the president called affordability a “hoax” last week, as Democrats begin to zero in on the message, Fitzpatrick disagrees: “Believe me. I hear it every day back home. It’s real.”
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Why does the GOP never point out that most Democrat Congress people voted to end Obama Care Covid subsidies in January 2026?
The GOP is so weak, so inept.
We have ALL been watching the utterly USELESS GOP-E Congress for DECADES yet it takes an absolute, act of God almighty to get rid of them once they are in if we make a mistake there doesn’t seem to be ANY recourse any longer……SPIT!!!!
Trump has always said pulling down energy prices would be a large component of producing affordability. The last month, at least around here, is the first time the downward move in gasoline price has been significant and sustained, we’re out of the $3s. Bill Clinton lived in fear of a few pennies rise in gas price. These stories about affordability are the crescendoing of the media noise to take the place of Epstein-Epstein-Epstein stories that fizzled. If Trump is right, usually is, lower transportation costs will make a lot of things more affordable; the RNC mid term convention will be in place with the messaging.
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