Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
Well that's interesting! I could swear that the original legislation authorizing the subsidies was the American Rescue Plan which passed in the House and then in the Senate with absolutely no Republican support, although the Democrats had enough of a majority in both to pass without the need for Republican votes.

Then, as I recall, when it was extended during the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act the Democrats again passed it in the House without a single Republican vote and then after some late stage negotiations between Schumer and Democrat Senator Manchin, it passed in the Senate on a party line vote of 50-50 which was then broken by Vice President Harris providing the 51st vote in favor.

While I'm sure someone somewhere placed blame on Republicans, in my book if the Democrats could pass the legislation with expiration dates twice without a single Republican vote, I can't imagine why they didn't make it permanent if that's what they wanted. Of course, you shouldn't just take my word for it, perhaps you could look it up and let me know if I got it wrong.

Edited to add: I see that the Democrats have again successfully voted to keep the government closed. I think this is the 6th time they've succeeded in the past week!
As I am hearing it, republications are the ones keeping the government closed. Have they even come back to work?