House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday that the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies at the heart of the impasse over the partial government shutdown are a “boondoggle” and that Democrats have only themselves to blame.
Johnson also said the subsidy issue cannot be included in any stopgap funding measure to end the shutdown, which is now in its 13th day.
“The COVID-era Obamacare subsidy that they’re all talking about is supposedly the issue of the day,” Johnson told reporters.
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