Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, warned that Democrats are holding the government hostage by refusing to back a clean funding bill unless Affordable Care Act subsidies and Medicaid expansions are protected, insisting such demands are driving the current shutdown standoff.
In an opinion piece published by The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Roy accused Democrats of “playing politics” and said they lack any real campaign message aside from maximizing leverage in budget negotiations.
“I’ve been in Congress since 2019 and have waited six years for my party to have an opportunity to go on the offense on healthcare — and win,” Roy wrote in the piece, which is titled, “This Is No Time to Go Wobbly on ObamaCare.”
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