DemocRATs doing their same old shit by adding another aspect to the healthcare discussions in an effort to make President Trump and the Republicans the bad guys. These bastards don't care about Americans - they just delay and obstruct. -The Senate is gearing up for a vote on extending expiring Obamacare premium subsidies, but a tense debate over restrictions on taxpayer-funded abortions is proving a major roadblock on the path to a bipartisan healthcare solution. -Republicans demand that Hyde Amendment protections, which prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortions, be added to an extension of the subsidies. Senate Democrats view that as a non-starter.The Hyde Amendment was first enacted in 1976, and has routinely been added to funding bills in the years since to ensure that federal dollars don’t prop up abortions. The issue has become a political third rail in the ongoing healthcare debate--Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., unveiled Democrats’ proposal on Thursday, which would largely be a clean extension of the subsidies for three years. Republicans have panned it as unserious, and the legislation is expected to fail.Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that the underlying framework of Obamacare comports with Hyde Amendment restrictions but that Democrats were insisting that the enhanced premium subsidies, which were passed during the COVID-19 pandemic under former President Joe Biden, not be covered by the abortion language, "We have never, ever agreed to taxpayer funding of abortions in the Republican Party. We're not going to start now, and they know that," he said. "So it may very well be, unfortunately, that that might be their reason for not wanting to do anything on health care because they think it's a really good midterm election issue."Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala, who was one of main figures in building a bipartisan bridge to reopen the government, told Fox News Digital that it was clear Schumer wanted to use healthcare as a "political issue in an election."--https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abortion-restrictions-create-major-roadblock-bipartisan-obamacare-subsidy-deal-senate
