Trump Urges Redirect of ACA Subsidies to Individuals in Shutdown Standoff

Overview

• In a Truth Social post, the president called for sending the federal dollars that now subsidize ACA plans directly to people to buy their own coverage.
• The remarks landed hours before the Senate reconvened after rejecting legislation to resume pay for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
• Republican senators James Lankford and Lindsey Graham voiced support for the redirect idea, while many GOP allies pushed for a clean funding bill first.
• Democrats insisted the year-end ACA subsidies be preserved in the spending measure that would reopen the government.
• The 39-day shutdown has left millions of federal employees unpaid, frozen essential food assistance, and disrupted air travel.