Dems Leverage Election Wins for Health-Care Credit: BGOV Tax

Health Credits Buoyed by Democratic Sweep

Democrats’ rout in statewide and legislative elections gives the party hoping to extend the enhanced premium tax credit more leverage as the longest government shutdown in American history slogs on.

Senate Democrats who have blocked a clean extension of government funding are re-upping demands for Republicans to negotiate an extension of Obamacare premium tax credits that went up during the Biden administration.

“Now the election results ought to send a much-needed bolt of lightning to Donald Trump that he should meet with us to end this crisis, his shutdown, which he admits, hurt him ...