“We’re seeing more evidence for this adage as the government shut downs following Democrats’ refusal to vote for a spending bill that did not include an extension of “temporary” Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, subsidies passed during the pandemic.
Those enhanced subsidies were passed as a temporary measure as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021, and then extended through the end of 2025 by the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
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Making these subsidies permanent would not be cheap. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it would cost $340 billion a year.
On the flip side, letting the tax credits expire would result in about 1.6 million higher-income earners losing subsidies completely. Millions more would continue receiving a smaller subsidy and see their premiums rise as a result.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/01/democrats-shut-down-the-government-to-obscure-obamacares-failures/
“Certain benefits will continue to be administered: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and assistance for Veterans. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will not be affected initially, but could be if the shutdown goes on for a long time. The federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will not be able to accept any new applicants starting today. In the past, “inspections of chemical factories, power plants, oil refineries and water treatment plants were disrupted because the Environmental Protection Agency furloughed most of its employees in charge of monitoring pollution and compliance,” reports the Times. “Some routine food safety inspections also stopped.”
National parks have previously had their operations hobbled; open-air sites will probably stay open but visitors centers or other areas that need staffing will shut down. The Department of the Interior says that restrooms will be cleaned and garbage will be collected”
https://reason.com/2025/10/01/trump-government-shutdown-could-do-a-lot-of-good/
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaeoDlLNnok
Argentina’s Economy Is Struggling. Why Is the White House Stepping In? | Big Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2YddQ6s18
Russia-NATO Confrontation – Drones over Poland & MiGs over the Baltic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7sVKNP-yo
Some of the taxes you pay are going to bailout farmers who only need to be bailed out because of Trump’s tariff policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVPQRK-gF0
ICE agents have repeatedly gotten unnecessarily rough with people. These are people here working, not criminals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGFTp4ov8Sw
No free speech for FBI agents?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-fires-agents-photographed-kneeling-001808478.html
Trump’s strikes on drug boats appear to be illegal. These military men and women are likely breaking the law by following orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAwwZDLUy4
RFK and Trump are spewing bullshit about autism and misinforming the public.
RFK and Trump are spewing bullshit about vaccines and misinforming the public.
RFK and Trump are spewing bullshit about medicine and disease, misinforming the public.
RFK chose two less rigorous studies to justify his advice on Tylenol while ignoring larger, more rigorous studies that find no association between Tylenol and ADHD or autism.
Fever can harm the unborn child and even cause miscarriage. Tylenol can prevent that by lowering the fever. Because Trump told women to not take Tylenol, some women won’t take it when they should, with bad consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohsYDUj0gfU