Democrats should not use Americans as political leverage as COVID-era healthcare subsidies near their scheduled expiration, Rep. Mark Harris told Newsmax on Monday, warning that extending the aid would perpetuate waste and deepen partisan brinkmanship ahead of looming funding deadlines.?
The North Carolina Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that Democrats were setting the stage for another manufactured crisis by opposing Republican efforts to allow the pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies to lapse at the end of the year.
“I cannot believe that the Democrats would think once again of taking the American people hostage over something that is going nowhere,” Harris said, arguing that the subsidies were never meant to be permanent.
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