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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Popular Information's Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims write about the false excuses the Republican controlled government gives for shutting down the government. Such as Democrats are working to get "health care for illegal immigrants" when millions of American citizens are about to lose their health care if the GOP pass their budget unchanged.

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Breaking News: All Americans who buy health insurance through Obamacare can now get a first look at how much prices will increase next year.[image or embed]

-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Oct 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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Nobody cares about hungry kids.
--Eberly.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 02:08 PM | Reply

Eberly Cares.

Just like Pepperidge Farms Remembers.

About as Authentically Too.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-29 02:19 PM | Reply

See the impact of the BBB on each state here: democrats.org

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-29 02:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Thank you for posting that link.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-29 02:35 PM | Reply

Republicans have been saying for years that they have Plan to replace the ACA... Moses Mike said the other day it would, "be ready in a few weeks".

It was MTG who noted that 'the Plan' was locked up in the Secure Area and she wasn't allowed to see it... because it still does not exist.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-29 02:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We might just end childhood obesity. Fingers crossed.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-10-29 03:09 PM | Reply

Joking about hungry kids is the kind of joke Eberly just doesn't care about.
Signed,
Eberly

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 03:10 PM | Reply

"Cruelty and humiliation have become the Trump administration's common currency."

George Packer

#8 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-10-29 03:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oh pls! Trump was going to have a bigger and better aca to replace obamacare in his first administration.

So you think the gop will drop an alternative Healthcare program?

We are still waiting on his first administration's obligations.

#9 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-10-29 03:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

We might just end childhood obesity. Fingers crossed.

#6 | Posted by visitor_

Your cult threw a tantrum when michelle obama tried to do that.

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-29 03:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Oh pls! Trump was going to have a bigger and better aca to replace obamacare in his first administration.

So you think the gop will drop an alternative Healthcare program?

We are still waiting on his first administration's obligations.

#9 | Posted by fresno500

Bears repeating. Nail, meet squarely hit hammer head ...

#11 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-10-29 04:11 PM | Reply

#10 who knew her approach would function by making the food unappealing enough they just threw it away instead.

#12 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-10-29 04:52 PM | Reply

There sure are going to be a bunch of republicans who want a "nanny state" to feed them.

#13 | Posted by Tor at 2025-10-29 05:20 PM | Reply

We might just end childhood obesity. Fingers crossed.
#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-10-29 03:09 PM

42 million without SNAP, would be starving around 17 million children.

Your caloric meter adjusts from Palestinian to American so easily, right?

#14 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-10-29 05:45 PM | Reply

#10 who knew her approach would function by making the food unappealing enough they just threw it away instead.

#12 | Posted by kwrx25

And the republican "christian" approach is to starve them til they're willing to eat trash.

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-29 06:02 PM | Reply

All the Democrats have to do is give up free health insurance for illegals, but they'd rather poor American children go hungry instead.

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-10-29 08:26 PM | Reply

you keep saying that lie.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-29 08:46 PM | Reply

Republicans have been voting to open the government, what exactly do the Democrats want?

#18 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-10-29 09:35 PM | Reply

to keep the ACA subsidies. uh duh.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-29 09:41 PM | Reply

All the Democrats have to do is give up free health insurance for illegals
#16 | Posted by visitor_

what exactly do the Democrats want?
#18 | Posted by visitor_

You forgot your own talking point in the span of two posts?

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 09:45 PM | Reply

- Republicans have been voting to open the government

No, they aren't even IN DC to vote.

Dems are there ready to votes, Trumpers can't be found.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-29 10:01 PM | Reply

"Republicans have been voting to open the government"

They have?
Why?

What do Republicans think the government needs to be open for?
Why don't Republicans save us taxpayers some $$$ like they always promise and never do?

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 10:11 PM | Reply

I am 100% convinced Boaz especially hates this guy because of how mother fudging African he is.

Look at that hair! And that untamed name. Boaz is the kind of old man that was around when I was a kid who became emotionally upset when they saw a man with long hair. Except it's blacks acting all Native that triggers him. I would bet ten thousand dollars on this, which is more than half of the fake money on my Bank of America State of California EBT card!

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 10:20 PM | Reply

Aww man, wrong thread. No sense fixing it. Bet stands!

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 10:20 PM | Reply

"what exactly do the Democrats want?

#18 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-10-29 09:35 PM | Reply | Flag:
(Choose)

to keep the ACA subsidies. uh duh.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-29 09:41 PM | Reply |"

They shouldn't have sunsetted them in the first place. End the filibuster and pass a clean CR like the House did. Fight the ACA subsidy battle separately.

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-10-30 12:12 AM | Reply

It was MTG who noted that 'the Plan' was locked up in the Secure Area and she wasn't allowed to see it... because it still does not exist.

You know things have gone sideways when MTG is a voice of reason for the Republican party.

#26 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-30 01:49 AM | Reply

#10 who knew her approach would function by making the food unappealing enough they just threw it away instead.

#12 | Posted by kwrx25

Turns out eating well and getting processed junk out of kid's diets would do that.

Or are you not all that familiar with the topic?

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-30 01:55 AM | Reply

All the Democrats have to do is give up free health insurance for illegals, but they'd rather poor American children go hungry instead.

#16 | Posted by visitor_

All you have to do is give up being a lying sack of s(*&.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-30 01:56 AM | Reply

Just a reminder that the biological entity occupying the half-destroyed White House dismantled USAID and destroyed millions of dollars of food for hungry people in the Third World while he and his oligarch Republican cronies gorge themselves like deer ticks:

#29 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 06:20 AM | Reply

All the Democrats have to do is give up free health insurance for illegals, but they'd rather poor American children go hungry instead.

#16 | Posted by visitor_

All you have to do is give up being a lying sack of s(*&.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-30 01:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

The undocumented simply go around the roadblock by using emergency rooms for their healthcare, leaving the taxpayer on the hook..

#30 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-30 12:19 PM | Reply


The undocumented simply go around the roadblock by using emergency rooms for their healthcare, leaving the taxpayer on the hook..
#30 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

But this has been true since I came to America, law passed in 1986 when Reagan gave illegal immigrants amnesty.

Though I thought ObamaCare was going to solve this. Not sure how the healthcare industry will handle it if everyone is off insurance because of prices.

With 2026 ACA plans officially live, a 64 YO couple in Morgantown with household income of $85k will see their premiums for the same plan increase by over $4,000 *per month*

Its unfortunate for Obamacare that COVID came along and allowed Pelosi to paint over the true costs of Obamacare. America would have been better served to always pay the costs up front.

#31 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-30 12:28 PM | Reply


to keep the ACA subsidies. uh duh.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-29 09:41 PM | Reply |"

They shouldn't have sunsetted them in the first place. End the filibuster and pass a clean CR like the House did. Fight the ACA subsidy battle separately.
#25 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Never understood why Pelosi put in the sunset, unless of course it made the CBO score for the COVID relief go non-linear.

Already was 3Trillion....
www.cmadocs.org

Then she did it again with ARA....
With our American Rescue Plan, Democrats expanded the promise of the Affordable Care Act to make health care more affordable and accessible than ever before " saving a family of four an average of $2,400 in annual premiums. Now, by enacting the Inflation Reduction Act, we extend and expand the ACA subsidies from the American Rescue Plan for another three years " locking in lower health care premiums that allow 13 million people to stay on their affordable plans and save an average of $800 a year.
pelosi.house.gov

All this did was increase the premiums. Incredibly short sighted, but just covering over the problems instead of fixing them.

Which come to think of it, is a valid reason not to continue the "subsidies".

#32 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-30 12:36 PM | Reply

The ACA was passed because Republicans wouldn't give Dems anything else; it was basically their Corporate Bill, but they opposed it when Dems decided it was the best they could get.

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-30 12:49 PM | Reply

All the Democrats have to do is give up free health insurance for illegals, but they'd rather poor American children go hungry instead.

#16 | Posted by visitor_

The people who tell you that democrats are fighting for healthcare for illegals are the same people who said obama wasn't a citizen and trump won in 2020. How many lies do you swallow before you start feeling like a fool?

#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-30 01:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The undocumented simply go around the roadblock by using emergency rooms for their healthcare, leaving the taxpayer on the hook..

#30 | Posted by lfthndthrds

White collar criminals steal far more from your pocket every year. But you know, they're WHITE, so it doesn't bother you.

#35 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-30 01:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The undocumented simply go around the roadblock by using emergency rooms for their healthcare, leaving the taxpayer on the hook..
#30 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Typical xenophobic rhetoric.

Fearmongering undocumented immigrants receiving pennies from our taxes while ignoring the wealthy taking millions in subsidies.

Hate is destroying America.

#36 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 01:31 PM | Reply

How many lies do you swallow before you start feeling like a fool?

That glutton?

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 01:32 PM | Reply

The undocumented simply go around the roadblock by using emergency rooms for their healthcare, leaving the taxpayer on the hook..

#30 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You do realize that there has to be an actual emergency to get care at an ED, right?

They're not going to give you an annual physical at an ED. You'll tell you to piss off.

So you do realize that this statement is stupid as f*&^, right?

#38 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-30 01:33 PM | Reply

Hate is destroying America.
#36 | Posted by ClownShack

You misspelled stupidity.

#39 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-30 01:34 PM | Reply

You're right. It's a bad combo.

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 01:36 PM | Reply

The "workaround" undocumented immigrants utilize to NOT DIE is the emergency room, just like regular citizens.

HOT DOG! The cult is on to something here!

#41 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-10-30 01:42 PM | Reply

The ACA was passed because Republicans wouldn't give Dems anything else; it was basically their Corporate Bill, but they opposed it when Dems decided it was the best they could get.
#33 | POSTED BY CORKY AT 2025-10-30 12:49 PM | REPLY |

It's always someone else's fault for the Schitty legislation.

#42 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-30 02:23 PM | Reply

It's always someone else's fault for the Schitty legislation.

#42 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Was obamacare orginally a republican plan or not?

#43 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-30 02:51 PM | Reply

It was a carbon copy of RomneyCare.

#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 02:55 PM | Reply

-The ACA was passed because Republicans wouldn't give Dems anything else

they didn't give a single vote for it.

That's no defense for the GOP.

the "Corporate Bill" was what got written to get democrats to vote for it.

The mandate removal is entirely on the GOP....and yes, the framework was a republican idea originally.....but so what?

#45 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-30 03:08 PM | Reply

-It was a carbon copy of RomneyCare.

and that makes it less shitty?

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-30 03:09 PM | Reply

American rice is shit.

You've obviously haven't had Minnesota wild rice.

As usual, you're totally ignorant. And anti-American.

#47 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-10-30 03:45 PM | Reply

#48 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 03:46 PM | Reply

the "Corporate Bill" was what got written to get democrats to vote for it.

The mandate removal is entirely on the GOP....and yes, the framework was a republican idea originally.....but so what?

#45 | Posted by eberly

The corporate bill is what democrats compromised on in order to try and get republican support.

#49 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-30 04:03 PM | Reply

USDJ Indira Talwani in Boston indicates that she will intervene to force the sinister Trumpf junta to ensure SNAP benefits continue through the Republican Party government shutdown: CNN

Her Honor is a geo-physicist nominated by POTUS Barack Obama.

#50 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 04:03 PM | Reply

-It was a carbon copy of RomneyCare.

and that makes it less shitty?
#46 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Was RomneyCare shitty?

I'm not sure.

What I am sure of is the Republican Party had zero interest in RomneyCare for the nation, because it was being proposed by a Black man.

Had Bill Clinton proposed it we wouldn't have seen the same refusal from republicans.

#51 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 04:12 PM | Reply

"Was RomneyCare shitty?
I'm not sure."

Romneycare has been used as a deflection 8,000 times here when Obamacare is discussed.

I should matter to those who use it as a deflection......but apparently not.

Of course, it was all about the hypocrisy of the GOP.......which is real.

#52 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-30 05:11 PM | Reply

Romneycare has been used as a deflection 8,000 times here when Obamacare is discussed.
- eberlythegreatone

Romney care was just expanded Medicaid, but did require"coverage".

It didn't create a marketplace or put so many onerous requirements on private insurance.
For instance preexisting conditions, you could get state coverage through Medicaid.

#53 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-30 05:20 PM | Reply

Romneycare has been used as a deflection 8,000 times here when Obamacare is discussed.

What was being deflected?

You'll have to catch me up since I haven't a clue what your hyperbole is supposed to convey.

#54 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 05:48 PM | Reply

Romney care was just expanded Medicaid, but did require"coverage".

Is that what they taught you in China?

About RomneyCare.

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 05:49 PM | Reply

-What was being deflected?

The imperfections of ACA.

#56 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-30 06:23 PM | Reply

Huh?

RomneyCare was being used as a deflection against Obamacare?

RomneyCare was used as the blueprint for Obamacare.

Where is the deflection?

Like specifically, if you actually wanna discuss this, you're gonna have to explain what you're talking about.

#57 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-30 06:34 PM | Reply

"They shouldn't have sunsetted them in the first place"

What a riot.

The tax giveaways for billionaires sunset as well.

Republicans had NO PROBLEM continuing what they wanted to continue.

#58 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-30 06:35 PM | Reply

How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate (2011)
www.forbes.com

... This came up at Tuesday's Western Republican Leadership Conference Debate, where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich tussled on the question:

ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.

GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.

ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.

GINGRICH: Wait a second. What you just said is not true. You did not get that from me. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.

ROMNEY: And you never supported them?

GINGRICH: I agree with them, but I'm just saying, what you said to this audience just now plain wasn't true.

(CROSSTALK)

ROMNEY: OK. Let me ask, have you supported in the past an individual mandate?

GINGRICH: I absolutely did with the Heritage Foundation against Hillarycare.

ROMNEY: You did support an individual mandate?

ROMNEY: Oh, OK. That's what I'm saying. We got the idea from you and the Heritage Foundation.

GINGRICH: OK. A little broader.

ROMNEY: OK.



#59 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-30 06:41 PM | Reply

Semantics semantics semantics.

If the power structures were rigged in favor of liberals instead of conservatives, democrats would be in charge and every american would have single payer healthcare, more money in their pocket, and years of their life not spent arguing with insurance companies or studying health plans.

#60 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-30 07:16 PM | Reply

"For instance preexisting conditions, you could get state coverage through Medicaid."

Only if you had no assets. Otherwise, you're in a high-risk pool.

Back the year before O-Care began, HRPs were charging $5000/mo, compared to a Cobra at that time costing ~$500-$600.

FTW, Cobra is usually equal to the highest-cost basic insurance for a 64yr old. Part of the reason is it's a catch-all, and part because it's more attractive to those who know they'll use it more.

MediCAID usually only kicks in when (almost) all other assets have been liquidated.

#61 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-30 07:21 PM | Reply

This is the start of forcing congress to do something. That's a lot of voters effected and dissatisfied. Flights being halted is next up if they dilly dally, which will bring yet more voters highly dissatisfied.

Trump will pretty much have to steal the election to keep it in the Repub majority at the rate it is going. Without it, it's pretty much a slam dunk against them and they continue to irate more and more voters they need to stay in power.

#62 | Posted by BBQ at 2025-10-30 07:25 PM | Reply

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