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Senator Daines said that the Democrats want to keep the expanded Obamacare subsidies in place, keeping premiums from soaring for 15 million people, and he is opposed to continuing these subsidies. While I completely disagree with his position, at least Senator Daines was honest about what is at issue. There is no way forward unless we can talk seriously about the issues separating the parties. Unfortunately, Trump, Vance, and Speaker Johnson are instead determined to spew lies and nonsense.
Trump’s New MAGA Slogan is “America Fourth”
Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, recently explained that if he seemed to be working as much for Israel as for the United States, it’s because the two countries are like husband and wife. That makes America second.
But then we got pushed back to third when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent decided to lend Argentina $20 billion to help get Argentina’s president and Trump friend Javier Milei get through elections this month. The loan is especially embarrassing from the “America First” perspective since Argentina has largely replaced US farmers as a source of soybean exports to China.
But America didn’t last long in third place in the Trump administration. Trump signed an executive order committing the United States to defend Qatar after an Israeli strike there last month. The commitment is similar to NATO’s Article 5 provision that an attack on one would be seen as an attack on all.
https://cepr.net/publications/thoughts-from-the-shutdown/
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Montana Senator Steve Daines gets a truth-telling award. Acknowledges Republicans shut down the government because they think people should pay higher health insurance premiums