In Reply to: No vetting? No problem for the QOP posted by mh on October 08, 2025 at 10:16:44
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN TELL Democrats have the upper hand in the week-old shutdown fight: Marjorie Taylor Greene just endorsed their key demand.
“WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ABSOLUTELY INSANE COST OF INSURANCE FOR AMERICANS,” the Georgia House Republican tweeted Monday evening. And she made clear that “something” in this case means extending the temporary Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at year’s end, which is the most visible item on the Democratic agenda.
“I was not in Congress when all this Obamacare, ‘Affordable Care Act’ bullsh!t started,” Greene wrote, describing herself as “not a fan” of the 2010 health care law that Republicans spent more than a decade trying to repeal. But, she went on to explain, “when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district.”
For that reason, she said, she is “going against everyone on this issue”—i.e., going against her fellow Republicans, most of whom oppose an extension. And, she added, she doesn’t care a whit if it bothers GOP leaders trying to hold the line against negotiations. “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!”