Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.
One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.
25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.
This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.
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KFF graphic summarizing key facts about ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credits. Highlights include a 114% increase in enrollments due to expanded tax credits. More than 90% of individual market ACA enrollees receive a tax credit; 24 million enrollees in 2025, and coverage details for middle-income families and farmers. Also notes an average $35 billion annual cost to extend these credits. Source: KFF Affordable Care Act analyses.
Get the key facts about the ACAβs enhanced premium tax credits at the center of the ongoing government shutdown.
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The workers whose health care is most at stake in the government shutdown
About 10 million small-business owners, employees and the self-employed are caught in the middle of the shutdown fight over the Affordable Care Act.
From manicurists and pedicurists to landscapers and funeral directors, freelancers, contractors, and small business workers will be devastated by the Republican health care crisis.
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Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.
Every time theyβre asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they donβt deny it.
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would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute
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There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no βboth sidesβ here, media.
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Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is justβ¦mass murder.
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The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign-spending limits.
How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United, eliminate campaign donations restrictions, and turn America into a kleptocracy β and how this nightmare can be stopped.
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We need to talk about Russell Vought β But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout βsmall governmentβ conservative β and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
Sunday reading:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream mediaβs infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This weekβs piece:
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Brett Kavanaugh: βThe Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops β¦β
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Opinion | Virginiaβs attorney general sends a dangerous message to police
The case of the young accountant, killed in an unwarranted shooting by U.S. Park Police in 2017, remains a study in law enforcement impunity.
Republican candidate for Attorney General, Jason Miyares, told police to not hesitate to shoot unarmed citizens if they feel angry, promising to protect the killers. Jay Jones and the Democratic ticket will protect us from this lawless regime.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
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If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.
We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
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Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, donβt know anything about it, donβt know who is involved.
Trump today:
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Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.
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Virginia: Breakout of ACA enrollment by House district
Virginia: Impact of enhanced ACA tax credits expiring on net benchmark Silver plan premiums for various households
5. #VIRGINIA ~410,000 ACA enrollees
π¨ HEADS UP, VA, YOU HAVE 35 DAYS... π¨
Avg gross rate change: +21.1% (FINAL)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $592/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if the enhanced tax credits expire: +236%
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The president is lying
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75% π€¬
Iβm not alone, but we pay over $19K/year for insurance through the ACA for my daughter, my wife, and myself.
Like millions of other Americans, we are bracing ourselves to be priced out. We donβt need to just save healthcare. We need to make it better and affordable.
#DonaldTrumpsShutdown
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
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So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.
These two gotta go.
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Justice Kavanaugh: βIf the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.β
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This is insane, @mta.info.
A white woman gets on a Metro-North, tells a Black man to sit differently, then complains to the conductor when he says no.
Thatβs bad.
But then the conductor CALLS THE COPS. On the MAN. For not changing how he was SITTING.
Thatβs inexcusable, @mta.info.
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No, we do not. We have to actually stand for something. And communicate it effectively. Then go out and persuade non-voters to vote and to vote for the things we stand for.
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Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isnβt sure if heβll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trumpβs or the GOP.
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Rβs: WEβRE GONNA KICK EVEN MORE PEOPLE OFF HEALTH INSURANCE
Dβs: no
Rβs: I CANβT BELIEVE THEYβD DO THIS
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesnβt like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirkβs hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with todayβs political mainstream media.
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