Republicans urge Trump to keep critical health subsidies for low-income people

Republicans urge Trump to keep critical health subsidies for low-income people

Republicans lawmakers are urging Donald Trump to continue paying critical health insurance subsidies that help lower-income people afford it, amid growing concern that the president will follow through on his threat to cancel them.

Frustrated by his party’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump has dangled the possibility that he would stop the payments – a move that experts say would send insurance markets into turmoil and cause premiums to rise dramatically.

Democrats have called the threat an attempt to “sabotage” the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare.
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