Shutdown Deal Doesn't Extend Health Subsidies

Tammy Baldwin Tried To Save Affordable Health Care. Republicans Stopped Her.

LGBTQNation reports that as the Senate was voting to pass a deal to reopen the federal government without securing funding for health care subsidies, the only out LGBTQ+ U.S. senator, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), made one last-ditch effort to get Congress to fund health care for working-class Americans. Read more at LGBTQNation

Shutdown deal doesn't extend health subsidies

NEW YORK — A legislative package that appears on track to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly…

Sen. Michael Bennet warns of 'perfect storm' for rural Colorado health care after shutdown deal

Colorado leaders and political experts are split over the compromise that ended the shutdown without restoring ACA subsidies — a fight now set to play out in December’s Senate vote.

For Ossoff and Georgia Democrats, the shutdown fight is the message

ATLANTA — Georgia Democrats say they want more fight. And they’re getting it from U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and other leading party figures opposing a deal to end a record-long government shutdown.

Georgia Democrats decry shutdown deal that doesn’t extend health subsidies

Every major Democratic candidate for governor opposes the deal because it would not guarantee extending subsidies to help people buy health insurance.

Oklahoma officials weigh in after shutdown deal

Oklahoma leaders respond to Congress’ deal ending the 41-day federal shutdown and renewed debate over Affordable Care Act subsidies. The post Oklahoma officials weigh in after shutdown deal first appeared on The Journal Record.