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The GOP Strategy for ObamaCare and the Shutdown, by Thomas Gallatin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The GOP Strategy for ObamaCare and the Shutdown, by Thomas Gallatin

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By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post, October 23, 2025. AI?

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post, October 23, 2025

Are Republicans going to cave to Democrat demands on extending expiring ObamaCare subsidies? The answer is a likely nuanced yes and no.

Democrats are responsible for what has now become the second-longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. And if Democrats drag it out for another eight days, it will surpass the longest shutdown on record, interestingly also set under Donald Trump during his first term.

During the previous record shutdown, the principal issue was Trump’s push for funding for a Mexico-U.S. border wall. House Democrats, led by then Speaker Nancy Pelosi, balked at funding Trump’s border wall as they sought to enshrine Barack Obama’s executive order that effectively made the DACA program into law.

While a negotiation to reopen the government with a promise of working out a deal was eventually accepted, the end result was that Democrats successfully stymied most of the funding Trump had demanded for his border wall efforts. …

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