Dems Commit To ACA, Medicaid As Trump Threatens To Fire Federal Workers

Here comes a government shutdown.

Democrats have one ask: fund healthcare, in the form of extending ACA subsidies and restoring funding to Medicaid that was cut in Trump's Big Beautiful Ugly Bill. Meanwhile, the White House threatens to lay off more federal workers . Ho hum, bring the pain, just another day in Trumpland! Via the Wall Street Journal:

Republicans are seeking a seven-week extension in federal funding at current levels, and they have dismissed Democrats’ demands for hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare spending. In a move to raise the political pressure, President Trump’s budget chief late Wednesday vowed to use any lapse in funding to make deeper cuts in the federal workforce, a threat Democrats rejected as blackmail.

Democrats see the funding deadline as a r