Speaker Mike Johnson has told the White House that most House Republicans have little interest in extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies, sources familiar with the conversation told CBS News.
Johnson delivered the message in a phone call with senior administration officials as President Trump’s advisers were drafting a plan to continue the subsidies for an additional two years. That plan that was initially expected to emerge this week.
The Wall Street Journal first reported Johnson’s warning to the White House regarding the lack of GOP House support for the plan. Any White House health care plan would require overwhelming Republican support in the House to be enacted.
Small government, big business.
LOL, “small government”. They only mean that in extremely narrowly defined ways.
I remember hearing that even the centimillionaires and billionaires were starting to write think pieces (or have them written by think tanks they fund) about how having mass inequality is not something they should be interested in, given history. Meaning, things like guillotines. Obviously, they want to be extremely wealthy, but they recognize the risks (basically, violent outcomes aimed at them) of steering too far in that direction and that some reasonable pressure valves should be in place…
I’m pretty sure that was prior to Donvict’s first term and I haven’t seen much about those kind of murmurings since. I guess they hope to use someone like Taco as a blunt force instrument to smash any and all opposition and funnel as much money as possible to themselves? Again, this is probably not being steered by people that are bothering to learn from history…