Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the year.

Despite some conservative hardline opposition to the extension of the ACA, or Obamacare, subsidies that will cost an estimated $450 billion over the next decade, a surprising number of Republicans have indicated support for extending them, paired with minor program reforms.

Democrats in Washington, meanwhile, have fallen back on old defenses of Obamacare, telling horror stories that aren’t tethered to fact. And Gov. Tony Evers last week said he “absolutely” supported his party’s pressing Republicans to agree to extending the subsidies in trade for Democrats agree

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