Republican Lawmakers Face Internal Rift Over Abortion
24th September 2025
Politico, a Voice of the Crust.
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill were already looking at a messy political battle over the looming expiration of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies. Then the anti-abortion advocates showed up.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? Politico was sure surprised.
With a possible government shutdown less than a week away, Democrats’ big ask is that Republicans agree to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were expanded by Congress in 2021 and are set to sunset at the end of the year.
A nibble here, a nibble there, and all of a sudden the Democrats have won and the Republicans have lost. This has been going on all of my life. Republicans always believe that THIS TIME Lucy will actually hold the football.
Insurance premiums are likely to skyrocket this fall without an extension, and some Republicans are open to cutting a deal, mindful that a failure to act could have dire consequences in the midterms.
And the reason that insurance premiums at skyrocketing is that Obamacare mandates minimum care according to the Democrat virtue-signaling political agenda (such as contraception coverage for Catholic nuns) rather than what people actually need–and, more to the point, what people actually want.
Sine (far too many) Republicans are open to cutting a deal because they put winning in the midterms before what’s best for the country. These guys are the Deep State in a Clever Plastic Disguise.
But now prominent anti-abortion groups are wading into the debate, pounding the halls of Congress to make their case that the enhanced tax credits for ACA insurance premiums function as an indirect subsidy for services designed to end pregnancies.
Which they obviously are. Nibble, nibble, nibble….
The argument could make conservative Republicans who already loathed the policy dig in further against greenlighting an extension.
God, I should hope so.
It’s setting the stage for a major internal GOP power struggle that could pit hard-liners against moderates in more competitive districts, while also complicating the ability of Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to allow a bipartisan deal to go through.
And it’s exactly this sort of shit that make people think that Congress sucks and will never do anything but suck. Hard to say they’re mistaken when all the evidence points that way. Want to know why Trump is President? Here you go.