First of all, it isn’t true to that they can’t reopen this week. The House passed a clean CR last month. The Senate can pass it at any time, and the President would sign it. They could have this fight in November if they wanted to. They don’t want to. Why is that? Leverage. Democrats need leverage, and the only leverage they have is me.
Secondly, I don’t get why you want to hang your hat on rebranding the enhanced subsidies to something else. For one thing, they’re not erasing subsidies completely. The OBBB simply allowed the American Rescue Plan subsidies to sunset as they were originally intended to do. Those were temporary COVID relief funds. We don’t need COVID relief funds. Ergo, they should go away, like they were always meant to. Second, there’s no doubt they’re called subsidies. The Inflation Reduction Act reads “Subtitle C–Affordable Care Act Subsidies”. It’s right there in the title of the relevant section. Why argue these silly semantics?
Anyway…Democrats can still make it right. Just pass this and this. Simple. If suranyi gets money by virtue of “relying” on it, then so do I. Agreed?