Scott Jennings Turns The Tables On David Hogg After He Blames GOP For Shutdown

Salem Radio Network host Scott Jennings reminded ousted Democratic National Committee Vice Chairperson David Hogg that Democrats passed Obamacare and arranged for subsidies to expire in 2025 after Hogg attempted to blame Republicans for the government shutdown during a Monday “CNN Newsnight” panel.

Democrats’ demands for a continuing resolution that would end the government shutdown, which is nearing its fifth week, include over $1 trillion in funding for various priorities, including continuing enhanced COVID-era subsidies for Obamacare. Hogg claimed that Democrats opposed the continuing resolution because they didn’t want to be “complicit” in increasing premiums for insurance.

“The entire reason the government is not open right now is because Democrats refuse to be complicit in having millions of Americans, including a hundred thousand in Kentucky, your home state, if I’m remembering correctly, Scott, that rely on ACA, that would see their premiums rise several-” Hogg claimed before Concerned Women of America CEO Penny Nance cut in, saying, “Which you can deal with separately. It doesn’t have to be. Those two things do not go together. They’re two separate-”

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“But the way that they’re doing this right now, they’re combining both,” Hogg interrupted, leading to a back-and-forth that saw the anti-Second Amendment activist taunt Nance with the failure of Republicans to repeal Obamacare in 2017 after then-Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona provided the