Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaking at a press conference on the government shutdown on Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images

Three dollars a week.

That’s the number that led Democrats to shut down the federal government — a month-long drama with no end in sight that’s doing growing damage to Americans’ paychecks, the economy and national security.

They’re demanding that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans permanently extend the expanded Obamacare subsidies that President Joe Biden temporarily created during the pandemic.

But when those extra handouts expire at the end of the year, the average Obamacare individual market enrollee will pay just $3 more a week .

That’s according to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which last week releas

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