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GOP-Obamacare Surrender.

For all the media hand-wringing over the government shutdown, the fact is only approximately 750,000 of the over 2 million non-military federal employees are being furloughed.

Most federal programs will continue operating, including the major entitlement and welfare programs.

The national parks will remain open if understaffed with closed visitor centers.

Unfortunately, the shutdown will not affect the military industrial complex.

President Trump's supposed master plan to implement mass firings of federal employees will only fire 16,000 employees.

Democrats are refusing to vote for a short-term continuing resolution unless it extends the increase

in Obamacare subsidies that was part of the Biden-era COVID relief legislation.

Republicans who for years campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare are not opposing

extending the subsidies. Instead, they are focusing on concerns the Democrats want to allow

illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded health benefits. Republicans are also emphasizing

that they want to negotiate over extending the Obamacare subsidies, not simply

shove them into a must-pass continuing resolution. Republicans also want to ensure that laws

barring illegal immigrants from receiving the subsidies are in place.

Republicans de facto embrace of the increased Obamacare subsidies, which were supposed to be a temporary

increase to help Americans who lost their jobs because of the COVID lockdowns

is a little, noticed but major milestone in the history of Obamacare. For many years, Republicans

campaign on a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. Opposition to Obamacare, along with opposition

to the big bank bailouts and the cap and trade scheme, fueled the Tea Party movement, which led

in the 2010 election to a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives. In 2013, as the federal government

was implementing Obamacare, T-party Republicans orchestrated a government shutdown. The argument was

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