No Compromise on the Hyde Amendment |
Last year, we went through the longest government shutdown in history.
The point of contention was the extension of what were supposed to be temporary additional Obamacare subsidies enacted during COVID-19.
"Temporary" in Washington means forever. This is what must change.
The "temporary" subsidies were supposed to expire last year. But Democrats could not resist the opportunity to push Republicans up against the wall and associate them with Obamacare premium increases.
A deal was cut to address the subsidies after the first of the year and get the government funded and open. Which is what happened.
Now the House is dealing with the subsidies. The truth is no different now than it was last year. Obamacare is rife with inefficiencies and fraud, and the additional subsidies add hundreds of billions in red ink to a federal government already bleeding massive deficits.
Now we have another issue. Democrats do not want the Hyde Amendment, which, for half a century, has prohibited the use of federal funds for elective abortion,........