By Steve Levy
The present federal government shutdown was, to many, obviously prompted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s need to show he’s willing to fight Donald Trump so he could mitigate a potential primary from AOC.
Yet, the Democrats have couched the shutdown they initiated around extending Obamacare subsidies enacted during COVID. They have concocted the story that Republicans in the One Big Beautiful Bill had eliminated Obamacare subsidies. To the contrary: Republicans retained the original pre-pandemic subsidies, but simply allowed the temporary additional COVID subsidies to expire as originally intended.