Jared Golden says Democrats 'lying' about shutdown strategy

[In It to Win It]

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) says Democrats are “lying” about their shutdown strategy as the impasse over funding the government nears the one-month mark.

Golden, who was the only Democrat to vote for a Republican-backed spending measure to fund the government last month, told The Wall Street Journal that Democrats shouldn’t use the shutdown as leverage to advance their health care demands.

Democrats have been urging Republicans to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of this year. Experts have said Americans’ health insurance premiums could increase if those subsidies are not extended.

But Golden argued Democrats should keep the health care issue separate from reopening the government, noting it was his own colleagues who included a sunset for the subsidies in 2022.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jared-golden-says-democrats-lying-163806462.html

[Ocelot II]

1. With friends like him, who needs enemies?

[lame54]

2. They'll smell his weakness

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Did the Democrats indeed add a sunset for the subsidies?

Is that a fact or is he just making it up? I would be interested in the reasoning behind it if that is the case.

[In It to Win It]

4. Yes, there is a sunset added by Democrats. Why? Joe Manchin

Joe Manchin thought the bill that eventually became the IRA was too expensive. Instead of 10 years of subsidies, they put the expiration on them at 2025 to make the bill less expensive and get Joe Manchin's vote.

[BlueTsunami2018]

7. Of course. That asshole haunts us even in retirement.

Having read about it a bit, the reconciliation process demands the bill be offset so not only is he responsible for the subsidies being sunsetted but also a significant pay for which was a tax hike on the very richest bloodsuckers.

There’s always got to be that one guy who shills for the rulers and denies the working class a benefit.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Reminder: it was almost exactly one year ago that Golden said this:

“I’d be OK with a second Trump term”.

[newdeal2]

6. Really?

Then he is the dishonest one

[IcyPeas]

8. Oh, he's from Maine..... no wonder he is "concerned"

[B.See]

9. Whew... for a moment there, I was thinking

this was just another headline that read like a right winged talking point, and not something that a Democrat actually said.

Boy, am I relieved .

(insert sarcasm thingy here)