Back to episode — Episode 3012 CWSA 11/08/25
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ounteroffer. He says Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes healthcare affordability. Now I think in this context what he wants to do is just extend the Obamacare tax credits for a year while the Republicans and Democrats work out how to improve it. Isn't that reasonable? Doesn't that seem to you like a completely reasonable compromise? Because…
← Previous segment →g and you're going to give somebody something so that you know you've compromised, what's the best thing to give them? The answer is nothing. The best thing to give them is nothing.
Do you know what this is? It's nothing. It's nothing because you wouldn't be able to fix Obamacare in seven weeks or whatever we have before we have to have a real law. It's going to take a year to fix it. Whatever the problem is, you think that the government can get it fixed in less than a year? So my take on this is all he's offering is what was going to happen anyway, no matter what anybody wanted to
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happen. In the real world this takes a year. Am I wrong? So really what he's offering is what was going to happen anyway. Hey, this is going to take longer than you thought. Why don't we do it right instead of slapping it together? Now if your take is no, I'm not going to spend one more dime, you were going to spend the dime anyway. You just didn't know it. If I could prevent you from having to sp…
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