One of the reasons the Democrats are refusing to approve an continuing resolution to keep the government open is that they want to restore the spending that got eliminated in the Big Beautiful Bill. That spending includes a continuation of some of the money that was supposed to be temporary spending due to Covid. Just for the record, Congress has passed 36 continuing resolutions to fund the government rather than following the regular budget process since the senator took office in January 2009 (source here). So why is this continuing resolution different? It isn’t. However, the current politics of the Democrat party is different. The government shutdown is the result of the battle between the sane and insane elements of the Democrat party. The insane element is the socialist wing that keeps moving farther left. The sane wing is the old-school Democrat wing that will occasionally bend in order to keep things moving forward.

On Tuesday, Breitbart reported:

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) rejected a one-year extension of Obamacare subsidies, which Breitbart News has reported that Democrats essentially shut down the government over.

The Hill reported that while Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) is advocating for legislation that would “extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credit” until the end of 2026, Jeffries criticized Republicans for thinking “Democrats are going to go along with a one-year extension” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies:

Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) is pushing legislation to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits, which expire on Jan. 1, through the end of 2026. The proposal has bipartisan support, and some political observers view it as a launching pad for securing a deal to reopen the government.

Jeffries, though, has other ideas, saying a one-year extension is “a non-starter.” He emphasized that President Trump and Republicans had adopted a permanent extension of tax cuts for the country’s wealthiest people earlier in the year. With that in mind, he’s demanding a similarly permanent extension of the enhanced ACA subsidies, which overwhelmingly help working class people.

Actually, if you really wanted to help working class people, you would get rid of the subsidies, let Obamacare die, and get the government out of healthcare. That would help everyone.

The article concludes:

While Democrats argue that “the loss of enhanced subsidies will result in the widespread loss of Americans’ health care,” Michael Cannon, the director of health policy studies for the Cato Institute explained that the enhanced subsidies “subsidize people making from $129,000 all the way up to $600,000 per year.”

Cannon described them as “Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy.”