To the editor:
Watching the events surrounding the government shutdown, I feel the need to respond.
It seems the hangup is over funding of the ACA. Republicans talk about the cost over ten years. From what I have read, it would cost $350 to $450 billion, which Republicans claim is too much, yet they voted for Trumps Big Beautiful Bill that is projected to raise the national debt by $4 trillion for tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. They say 50 million people benefit from the ACA, but it seems Republicans want to protect the rich at the expense of low and middle-class Americans.
Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA 70 times since 2017 without any concrete proposal to replace it, just talk. Speaker Johnson says they have a plan, so why not present it and reach a compromise?
To do that, though, Johnson will have to call the House back in session for debate. However, if he does, they will have to swear in Adelita Grijalva, who will be the vote needed to force the vote to release the Epstein files that, for some reason, President Trump doesnt want brought out.
The national debt just reached $38 trillion. That is up nearly $2 trillion since Trump took office in January. The debt went up $8 trillion during the first four years he was in office.
In 2016, when Trump ran for office for the first time, he stated he would get rid of the debt in eight years. He stated he was the king of debt then, and he is proving it now.
Trump has laid off or fired 300,000 federal employees and imposed tariffs. Where is all the money going from his actions? The national debt should be going down, not up.
Charlie Flowers
Iroquois
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