The shutdown centered on a single, recurring demand: Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer insisted on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits as the price to reopen the government, while Senate and House Republicans insisted the government be reopened first and refused to guarantee the subsidy extension. The standoff combined policy disagreement over healthcare subsidies with procedural and political strategy fights about sequencing and leverage, producing repeated failed bids to reopen the government and escalating public and administrative consequences
Our most vulnerable neighbors are about to get shoved off a metaphorical cliff. This is going to be a crisis.
Virginia declared a state of emergency to free up resources to help snap recipients. This is troubling and very sad.
I saw that. Not sure how much funding VA SNAP needs. As I understand it, federal dollars are needed.
Executive Summary
The shutdown centered on a single, recurring demand: Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer insisted on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits as the price to reopen the government, while Senate and House Republicans insisted the government be reopened first and refused to guarantee the subsidy extension. The standoff combined policy disagreement over healthcare subsidies with procedural and political strategy fights about sequencing and leverage, producing repeated failed bids to reopen the government and escalating public and administrative consequences
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/schumer-government-shutdown-policy-disagreements-7c583b
That is correct. That is the reason for the impasse. One party wants one thing and the other doesn’t want it. Our government is not working together.
‘Democrat government shutdown’ blamed for missing paychecks, SNAP benefits: White House
https://youtu.be/upFqDmZW9ss