Democrat Stopgap Spending Counterproposal Would Add $1.5 Trillion to Debt

The Democrats’ stopgap spending bill counterproposal would add $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years, according to an analysis.

The government will shut down at midnight September 30 unless lawmakers either agree on passing a stopgap spending bill or pass 12 appropriations bills.

Democrats are staging a fight over the looming government shutdown over the lapsing of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, subsidies enacted under the Biden-era America Rescue Plan — the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus plan. The Inflation Reduction Act continued the subsidies, which will now expire if Congress does not extend…

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