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00:00We're learning this morning that President Trump's announcement on extending Obamacare
00:06subsidies expected this week is now delayed amid Republican pushback. The slowdown comes
00:13as millions of Americans face steep health care costs increases when current Affordable Care Act
00:18tax credits expire at the end of the year. The president's draft proposal reportedly includes
00:24a two-year extension of those subsidies with new eligibility limits. Multiple reports on
00:29Monday said the announcement was imminent, but both CNN and MSNOW report it has been delayed
00:36amid Republican pushback. But not all Republicans are reflexively opposed.
00:41We gotta quit pointing fingers. We gotta start doing something with this thing. At least Trump's
00:47proposal does something over a two-year period. It keeps people from losing their insurance and it
00:52verifies that it's not a bunch of frauds going on. So anyway, I think it's something we ought
00:59to be looking at, but we probably won't. We'll probably kill it in the press and everybody
01:07with anonymous sources. But it gets us to the dadgum table. Look, I don't like the thing,
01:13but at least he's proposing some changes. And we haven't done anything in, what, 15 years?
01:18Everybody's griping and moaning about it. At least Trump's got the guts to do something about it.
01:23I said we ought to take a look at it.
01:24For now, it's unclear if or when any subsidy extension will move forward. Senate Republicans
01:30promised Democrats a mid-December vote on ACA subsidies as part of the deal to reopen the
01:36government. When senators return from the Thanksgiving recess, that deadline will be just days away.
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