(WIB) – By all accounts, there’s no end in sight for the federal government shutdown that started on Wednesday. Votes held in the Senate on Friday didn’t lead to an agreement between congressional Democrats and Republicans; meanwhile, the verbal sniping across the aisle continued, a sign that left and right are still far apart.

But the impasse — centered on Republicans’ refusal to meet Democrats’ demands to extend federal healthcare subsidies and reverse the Trump administration’s deep cuts to the Medicaid budget — is putting Black people in a healthcare squeeze.

Medicaid Services Still Operating–For Now

Medicaid and Medicare are still operable–but might not be for long if Donald Trump makes good on his threat to permanently lay off agency staff. But for many Black households, which ten

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