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Miles Archer

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Wed Oct 22, 2025, 08:30 AM Wednesday

Roger Marshall (R-KS): "If Democrats want to fund the government, then we're happy to sit down and fix the ACA." [View all]

This is the new Republican "unified stance" on the shutdown, the result of pressure from Trump.

"If Dems sign our poison pill bill, we'll BE FUCKIN' DELIGHTED to sit down and fix those pesky little ObamaCare credits."

And, I think we ALL know that Lucy needs to sit there with that football, and we CANNOT kick it, because Republicans CAN'T BE TRUSTED. PERIOD.


In a show of GOP unity, Trump hosted Senate Republicans in the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, but the goal didn’t seem to be to re-open the government. If anything, it seemed to be to keep congressional Republicans from working across the aisle to re-open the federal government.

“The whole purpose of lunch [at the White House] is to keep all the team together, to make sure that we don't have any weak links,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told reporters at the Capitol.

"Whenever the Democrats want to fund the government, then we're happy to sit down and fix the ACA.”

Democrats aren’t buying that, especially as open enrollment signup — and the sticker shock expected to hit tens of millions of Americans — starts Nov. 1.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/government-shutdown-2674220513/
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