Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about Trump and the GOP,

caving on the ACA. Trump recently led the GOP and the U.S. into the longest government shutdown in history.

The primary sticking point, according to Republicans, was Democrats wanting the ACA premium tax credits extended.

A move that would show clearly that Trump's signature won big beautiful bill, failed the working class by giving tax breaks to billionaires and leaving the

working class out in the cold. Now my personal belief is that we actually had a shutdown over

Trump's ego, but that's personal opinion. We talked about how Republicans not extending the credits

would likely doom them at the midterms

as they impact tens of millions of people. But they were steadfast in their resolve to not

extend a hand to the working class. Trump made grandiose promises about replacing the ACA and so on. Now that the shutdown is over, there's an

interesting bit of gossip in the D.C. rumor mills. Trump plans on throwing his weight behind.

Drum roll please. Extending the credits. Maybe as soon as this week. It turns out that much like foreign policy

and trade deals, health care is hard. As we suggested they do during the shutdown, the Republicans

are trying to rally around small changes and make it seem like that was the real reason for the shutdown.

But their own statements from the time shows that not to be true. We talked about how they might

suggest putting income caps on it or minimum premiums. Those are literally the two changes being talked about. As we understand it,

there will be an income cap that reduces the credits. But from what we've heard, the income

caps are high enough to make it so almost anyone making that much isn't using the ACA marketplace anyway. The minimum

premium is weird according to the rumor mill. During the shutdown, Republicans said that millions

of people were insured via the ACA, but didn't know it. The minimum payment is their way to make sure that there

isn't any scam going on. But here's the weird part. The premiums, according to the rumor,

are incredibly low. The reason that's strange is because it seems like Republicans actually believed their own rhetoric

for once, and this wasn't just something they were feeding low information voters.

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