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 decisive vote against the measure, before Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida jumped in.
Jennings then corrected the record after attempts by Hogg and Moskowitz to paint the expiring subsidies as the fault of Republicans.
“David, you would admit that the ACA was a Democrat legislation, yes? And you would admit that the subsidies that we’re talking about now were passed by Democrats, yes? And you would admit that the sunset provision in the subsidies, which comes up at the end of the year, was in place because of Democrats, yes?” Jennings said. “Now, you want to make it a Republican problem. These are not the same issues. You could open the government today and then you could negotiate with Republicans about ACA.”
“And by the way, my suspicion is, and you know this, there are probably — and I know there are some House Republicans that would love to negotiate on it, but under duress, under a hostage taking situation, connecting disconnected issues, and now you‘re throwing SNAP onto it, you‘re throwing all the federal workers who aren‘t being paid onto it, all because of this fight that you wandered into because of your wing of the Democratic Party,” Jennings continued. “You all led to this SNAP crisis. You all led to this crisis of the government being closed, and you don’t know how to get out of it.”
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate minority leader, received criticism from left-wing media figures and Democrats in Congress over his decision in March to help pass a GOP-backed spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has been rumored as a potential primary opponent in 2028 for Schumer, who was first elected to the Senate in 1998 after serving nine terms in the House of Representatives.
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