[quote=Day of the Dawg]So they are showing the country who they really are. They will shut down the government and stop real citizens from government aid because they want to give illegals healthcare. They simply do not acre about their own citizens!!![/
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That is simply NOT TRUE!
Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.
If they wanna reopen the government, all they have to do is in the senate, employ the Nuclear Option to allow for a Majority vote instead of needing 60 to pass, they would need a simple majority....
As for healthcare, The Dems don't want Illegals to have healthcare. That is the LIE.....
During the Reagan Admin, Reagan passed a bill, (the name escapes me at the moment) that requires ALL EMERGENCY ROOMS to render care to anyone that comes through the doors. Regardless of Age, Color, Immigration Status or ability to pay. But Republicans can't figure that out for some reason.... Now a law put in place by a republican president is being used to lie.
It's damn near the most idiotic thing I've ever seen. Possible that a better word is MORONIC
#GMSTRONG
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They don't care if it's true. They only know that's the company line they're being spoon fed. Trump already said how much he loves them.
The only money that goes to the healthcare of the undocumented is emergency room money that helps subsidize them for "ALL uninsured patients".
I suppose when a child comes into the emergency room with his appendix about to burst the doctor should check his legal status before saving his life. I mean if he's not documented turn him away and let him die in the street. Isn't MAGA wonderful! Murica!
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Quotes from Trump every time he has implied/stated publicly that a government shut down starts at the top/ends at the top and it will be the POTUS who is remembered for and held responsible for it .... just for some fun reading.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
They don't care if it's true. They only know that's the company line they're being spoon fed. Trump already said how much he loves them.
The only money that goes to the healthcare of the undocumented is emergency room money that helps subsidize them for "ALL uninsured patients".
I suppose when a child comes into the emergency room with his appendix about to burst the doctor should check his legal status before saving his life. I mean if he's not documented turn him away and let him die in the street. Isn't MAGA wonderful! Murica!
They will just take the health care away or make it too cost prohibitive for the poor and then come out and lie and say it was what Obama wanted or it was Biden's fault. just like bessent said last week on Squawk Box lying when it came to why the farmers are getting screwed on China soybean and other product purchases. His one word answer-Biden
Trump has cost American tax payers billions of dollars with unjustified overreaching. I sure hope he goes through with unjustified firing of government workers. Air traffic controllers are not coming into work as it is. Heads up people.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
Yes, those nasty bastages are trying to keep over 20 million Americans healthcare premiums from doubling and the GOP don't give a damn. What will they do next.
Just a reminder, Donald Trump promised to release a healthcare plan "within two weeks" in an interview on Fox News in early August 2020. It's been the longest two weeks in recorded history. .
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
why did the republicans not address this issue previously for months? Why did they implement these changes to begin with? I will tell you why . trump thinks it is a big waste of money to provide healthcare to 20 million of the poorest americans.
trump said helping provide 20 million of the poorest americans with health care is a waste of money. I guess we should just let them suffer and die.
So shutting down the government is going to help them and the rest of the country?
Like it or not, shutting down the govt has risen as an effective negotiating tactic. This is not the first nor the last time this will happen. It's stupid and counterproductive, but I refuse to wring my hands when the same people keep flipping roles in the same story and we're supposed to believe that they're being sincere.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
How many families would there need to be before it mattered? 30 million? 50 Million? 60 million? How many times does trump have to lie before he is held accountable? The only "healthcare plan" trump has come up with is cutting almost a trillion dollars from healthcare. Does that sound like a "plan" to you?
He's been promising a plan since 2016. At what point is enough, enough?
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
White House deletes reference to 2019 law on back pay for federal workers from shutdown FAQ
The White House Office of Management and Budget has deleted a reference to a 2019 law on paying government workers after a shutdown from its FAQ on the current impasse.
The Trump administration on Tuesday threw into question whether the law guarantees back pay for furloughed workers in its latest effort to pressure Democrats in the shutdown, which began October 1. President Donald Trump doubled down on the issue in remarks Tuesday, suggesting it could depend on the worker.
The original OMB FAQ, posted September 30, referenced the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 in a section about whether essential federal employees who must work without pay during a shutdown would receive back pay. The paragraph mentioning the law, which Trump signed during a record shutdown in his first term, said that both furloughed and essential workers would be paid after the shutdown ends.
The updated FAQ, posted October 3, removed the paragraph about the law.
You see, when a law is something trump doesn't like and he wants to punish people, he pretends the law no longer exists and just does what he wants to anyway. That law was posted until he started threatening not to give those workers back pay. Then, just like that, POOF it was gone.
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Greene doubles down on remarks about Affordable Care Act subsidies
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) doubled down on recent remarks about Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies amid a government shutdown battle centered around health care.
“The issues of the subsidies are real. It’s not something that anybody can say is made up,” Greene told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill. “Also, people with regular or private plans, their premiums are looking to go up a median of 18 percent, that’s brutal. I know a lot of small business owners, like a family of four, and they’re paying $2,000 a month.”
“If you double their health insurance, or even triple it, these people are going to they’re either going to have to drop it, or they’re going to be choosing between rent and their insurance,” Greene later added.
She also said she thinks Republicans “got to get real and actually come up with a solution.”
“I’m literally here in Washington saying, you guys, if we don’t fix this right now, Americans are going to be hurting, and they really don’t care about R and D. They’re going to be talking about what’s happening to their bank accounts, what’s happening to their family, and that’s how they’re going to vote,” she told Burman.
Greene indicated on Monday a willingness to negotiate with Democrats on health care demands. The Georgia Republican said she was “absolutely disgusted” that health insurance premiums could double in the case of ACA tax credits expiring
“But 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 said in a post on the social platform X.
“No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m a Republican and won’t vote for illegals to have any tax payer funded healthcare or benefits,” she added.
On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued the end-of-year deadline to extend ACA subsidies was an “eternity” away.
“We have effectively three months to negotiate. In the White House and in the halls of Congress, that’s like an eternity,” Johnson told MSNBC’s Ali Vitali.
The subsidies were introduced amid the COVID-19 pandemic and extended through the end of 2025 via the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Open enrollment in most states begins on Nov. 1, and insurers may raise premiums if they believe the subsidies will expire.
Johnson, in shift, signals no vote during shutdown for military pay
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday signaled opposition to moving a stand-alone bill to pay military service members during a government shutdown, walking back his Tuesday statement saying he was open to holding such a vote.
If the shutdown drags on and Congress does not pass a bill to pay the troops or reopen the government, Oct. 15 will mark the first time in the modern times that service members missed a paycheck during a government shutdown. In previous shutdowns, Congress had either already funded the military or passed a measure to ensure troop pay.
Asked in a press conference Wednesday if he would move a bill by unanimous consent to pay the troops if the shutdown drags into next week — which would not require bringing back all House members to vote if there were no objections — Johnson signaled he would not.
Democrats, the Speaker alleged, “are clamoring to get back here and have another vote, because some of them want to get on record and say they were paying the troops.”
“We already had that vote. It’s called the CR [continuing resolution],” Johnson said, referring to the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21.
Senate Democrats have blocked that measure repeatedly in the Senate as they push for the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
“They voted that they did not want the troops to be paid. They did not want TSA [Transportation Security Administration] agents to be paid. They did not want air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and all the rest. They live with that vote. They made that decision. The House is done. The ball is now in the Senate’s court,” Johnson said.
“It does us no good to be here dithering on show votes,” Johnson said.
His comments in the Wednesday press conference mark a walk-back from what he said in a Tuesday joint press conference with Senate GOP leaders, where a split emerged when a reporter asked about a bill to pay the troops and air traffic controllers.
“We’re monitoring that day-by-day. I’m certainly open to that. We’ve done it in the past. We want to make sure that our troops are paid,” Johnson said Tuesday.
Johnson mentioned that Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) previously filed a bill to ensure troops are paid in a government shutdown, adding: “We’re looking forward to processing all this as soon as we gather everybody back up, but again, the most important thing is to turn the lights back on here.”
But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) then signaled a different strategy.
“The simplest way to end it is not try to exempt this group or that group or that group, it’s to try to get the government open and then all the adverse consequences of this go by the wayside,” he said.
Kiggans, for her part, is calling on GOP leaders to pass her bill to pay the troops.
“The President has made it clear: we must pay our troops. I’m urging the Speaker and our House leadership to immediately pass my bill to ensure our servicemembers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck while supporting their families, receive the pay they’ve earned,” Kiggans said in a statement. “Military pay should not be held hostage due to Washington’s dysfunction!”
Trump in a speech to members of the Navy on Sunday told them to not “worry about” missed paychecks amid the shutdown, and they will get “every last penny.”
"I'm refusing to hold a vote to pay the troops which has always been done in every previous shutdown and I'm blaming the democrats for my actions or lack there of."
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