Democrats are rapidly digging themselves into a deep hole.
Their battle cry during the Chuck Schumer shutdown is that they are determined to get another $400 billion of taxpayers’ money to subsidize a Biden administration, COVID-era health insurance subsidy – and they’ll hold the whole government hostage for it.
Their polling must show that on the surface this battle cry works. People care about health and health care. They see it as a moral issue in which helping people survive outweighs money.


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