{"id":22118,"date":"2025-11-09T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=22118"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:32:34","slug":"trump-makes-unexpected-move-in-shutdown-fight-flipping-script-on-dems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=22118","title":{"rendered":"Trump Makes Unexpected Move in Shutdown Fight, Flipping Script On Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump appeared to gain leverage in the ongoing government funding standoff Thursday after Senate Democrats sought to link a funding deal to an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies.<\/p>\n

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What began as an effort by Democrats to pressure Republicans during the shutdown negotiations has shifted in Trump\u2019s favor, following a new proposal he unveiled on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

In his post, the president announced a plan to redirect hundreds of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidy payments from insurance companies to direct payments for American citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,\u201d\u00a0Trump wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The action surprised Democrats, who had just a day earlier demanded a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies as part of a deal to reopen the government. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer framed the proposal as \u201ca reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability and begins a process of negotiating reforms,\u201d but Republicans rejected it outright, knowing that Schumer was using the proposal as a midterm election issue aimed at trapping the GOP and energizing Democratic voters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Obamacare extension is the negotiation,\u201d House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), said.<\/p>\n

Conservative commentators lauded the proposal as \u201cgenius,\u201d noting that the former president has effectively recast himself as an advocate for direct-to-consumer healthcare freedom. They said the plan reframes the debate as \u201chealthcare for the people\u201d versus the Democrats\u2019 defense of \u201cbig insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n