Sources tell Punchbowl News that at least 20 to 30 percent of House Republicans would vote yes on extending the Obamacare tax credits that Democrats have used as their main reason for forcing a government shutdown, buuuuuuut… Mike Johnson and leadership refuse to hold that vote.
Even though, pretty obviously, their conference knows that jacking up health insurance rates on millions of Americans going into a midterm year is fucking suicidal. Klan admirer Steve Scalise’s new line on that is “the tax credits were created to be temporary by the Democrats. It was the Democrats who set them up to expire, right? They never wanted them to be permanent,” as though people whose premiums are about to increase dramatically are going to be “reasonable” enough to get that.