ACA credits people are accusing Chuck Schumer of abandoning would not even exist without his leadership
Temporary subsidies were originally passed as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in 2021, which included two years of enhanced subsidies (2021 and 2022). The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which passed in 2022, extended these enhanced subsidies for an additional three years, ending after 2025.
These tax credits were set to expire at the end of 2022. Chuck Schumer negotiated hard with fox-in-the-henhouse, Joe Manchin in a 50/50 senate majority w/VP Harris' as a tiebreaker to allow the three-year extension in exchange for jettisoning things like social spending and climate change initiatives from a reconciliation bill Dems were able to pass and have Pres. Biden sign into law on their own in a simple-majority vote.
Manchin was playing god with his vote (along with Sinema)...
NPR:
It was the second time in less than two years that Democrats (Schumer in the Senate and Pelosi in the House) muscled through a sprawling spending package without any Republican support, following passage of the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package...
Here's the fucking thing with people thowing shit at Chuck Schumer, like the nobodies reaching back to claw at Joe Biden, they have nothing, zero to show what they did to advance anything that these very same Democrats are fighting for this very hour; the very things that THEY, themselves fought to provide and protect before voters decided they didn't need a Democratic majority any more; before some people decided that throwing shit at Democrats was more important than preserving what they'd fought and achieved with the slimmest majority that exists.
Get that, the very ACA credits that people are accusing Chuck Schumer of abandoning would not exist, would not have been put into effect and law without the leadership and ability of then-majority leader Schumer to make it happen on 2021 and again in 2022.
And fuck him for still defending those today? That's what he's fighting against, in addition to the actual republican opposition; a load of concern from people who must believe those benefits dropped out of the sky and landed in the federal register.
And, what has he done in this period of optimum public exposure? His critics are talking about the benefits as the most important thing in the nation, as opposed to a month or so ago when you couldn't distinguish them from anything else the republicans are taking away from Americans.
You have to be a political novice to imagine either Democratic leader actually believed republicans from the Senate, to the House, to the WH were just going to faint away and allow the expiring tax credits to continue because the people they deliberately hurt were hurting in the shutdown.
There should be an understanding that this was always a political gambit to first, get the benefits approved, and then dare republicans to end vital medical benefits for millions of their constituents.
That's still the political play, albeit without the political advantage our leaders exercised during the shutdown to heighten the expectations and elevate the potential harm in undoing in the eyes for what looks like a majority of republican constituents vs. Democrats who use the subsidies.
A handful of senators negotiated a pause in the fight until January when a vote on the ACA tax credits will take place shortly after the premiums increase.
That's the political flash point now, and you can count on one thing: Chuck Schumer will still have been fighting outside of our view, negotiating among the Democratic legislators who elected him to represent them, and organizing their votes for unified opposition to republicans and advocacy for Democratic initiatives like the tax credit he's been defending since 2021.
As Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out last night,
Senate that we have ever seen. Chuck Schumer did not have a majority of United States senators.
Chuck Schumer was the leader of a 50/50 Senate for
longer than any other leader in the history of the Senate. And Chuck Schumer could only get to 51 votes with VP Harris casting the tiebreaking 51st vote.
But his legislative accomplishments during the Biden presidency and President Biden's legislative accomplishments were greater, especially when you consider the degree of difficulty than any other president and any other Senate leader of our lifetimes."
I've already read several derisive responses to these facts about the Senate Democratic leader in other posts about 'cheerleading' or 'apologizing' or positivity' which are of course efforts to divert from realities that, likely, they, themselves haven't come anywhere close to the measure of effort and accomplishment of out Democratic leaders; so many believing judging it with a thumbs up or down is some kind of political action.
It's not, of course. It's protest, not governing, and too many who deign their opinion important enough to demand our Democrats stand aside when they face an obstacle aren't on the same level as the people who have already fought and won against republicans (and their own party members), and already achieved the things so many are now purporting to want to preserve and protect.
What a curious tactic that's emerged and become normalized among some Democratic supporters of attacking the people actually doing the fighting when the battle is well underway; willing to cast aside the very people that brought us to where we have those things fought for to defend.
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Why 2025? Why not 2035?
Only millionaire congress members would think playing with an expiration date is fair political gamesmanship for their reelection games.
Inflation Reduction Act.
Inflation Reduction Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
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Legislative history
The Build Back Better Act, which passed the House on September 27, 2021, was used by the Senate as the legislative vehicle for this legislation. On August 6, 2022 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed an amendment which would replace the text of the previously passed bill with the text of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This substitute amendment was later adopted.[34]
Schumer's lead staffer, Gerry Petrella, recalled the surprise phone call came from Senator Joe Manchin's office just prior to the August recess and the breakthrough negotiations occurred on the final summer weekend.[35] Some of the many experts, lobbyists and organizers who worked to refine the bill's provisions included Leah C. Stokes, Adrian Deveny, Katherine Hamilton, Ari Appel, Mike Carr, Danielle Deiseroth, Ari Mathusiak, Camila Thorndike, Jamal Raad, Topher Spiro, and Yogin Kothari;[36][21][37] the overall approach was shaped by Manchin and Senators Ron Wyden, Mark Warner and Chris Coons, while Representative Scott Peters worked to add pro-pharmaceutical industry limits to the Medicare drug pricing provisions, Bernie Sanders contributed the basis for the Solar for All program, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kyrsten Sinema negotiated on shaping an alternative minimum tax for corporate book income.[21][38][22]
On August 7, 2022, following the vote-a-rama, an unlimited marathon voting session on amendments, that lasted nearly 16 hours, the Senate passed the bill (as amended) on a 51–50 vote, with all Democrats voting in favor, all Republicans voting against, and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.[3] On August 12, 2022, the bill was passed by the House on a 220–207 vote, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans voting against it.[4] On August 16, 2022, the bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden.[39]
Provisions
Over a period of 10 years, the law was estimated to raise revenue from:[40][41][42]
Prescription drug price reform to lower prices, including Medicare negotiation of drug prices for certain drugs (starting at 10 new ones per year by 2026, increasing to more than 20 additional ones per year[43] by 2029)[44][45] and rebates from drug makers who price gouge – $281 billion[7][44][45]
Imposing a selective 15% corporate minimum tax rate for companies with higher than $1 billion of annual financial statement income – $222 billion
Increased tax enforcement – $181 billion[7][46]
Imposing a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks – $74 billion
2-year extension of the limitation on excess business losses – $53 billion[7]
In the same time period, it would spend this revenue on:[40][47]
Addressing domestic energy security and climate change, including funding for drought resiliency in western states – $783 billion[7]
Continuing for three more years the expansion of Affordable Care Act subsidies originally expanded under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 – $64 billion
Changes to Medicare Part D, low-income subsidies, vaccine coverage, and insulin – $44 billion[7]
Increased funding for the IRS for modernization and increased tax enforcement, including the hiring of up to 87,000 new IRS employees – $80 billion[46][48]
$663 billion of the law's climate action investments are embedded in the federal tax code.[49] Of these, McKinsey & Company estimates that roughly half the tax savings will go to corporations.[50] As part of the overall investment into clean energy, the law created a green bank,[51][52][53] extended the solar investment tax credit for 10 years[54] and invested $30 billion in nuclear power (including $700 million for high-assay low enrichment uranium (HALEU) fuel source research and development and $150 million for new Office of Nuclear Energy research)[55] and $760 million in facilitating electric power transmission siting reform.[56] It also invests $12 billion in electric vehicle incentives, $14 billion in home energy efficiency upgrades, $22 billion in home energy supply improvements, and $37 billion in advanced manufacturing.[57][40] (The latter amount includes $5.46 billion for a DOE program for zero-emissions industrial tech demonstrations,[58][59] $10 billion for the renewed 48C tax credit,[60] and more than $5 billion to the USDOT and GSA to lower embedded emissions in procurement.[61]) $19.5 billion goes to investments in climate-smart agriculture, more than $5 billion goes to revising remediation programs for those affected by discriminatory USDA lending practices, $5 billion goes to forest protection and urban heat island reductions, and nearly $3 billion goes to coastal habitat protection.[62][63][64] Lastly, the Act gives $1.005 billion to various agencies to increase staffing levels and kickstart permitting reform, particularly of environmental reviews.[56]
Alternatively, the Act's climate investments can be summarized as follows: $196–372 billion in energy, $67–183 billion in manufacturing, $28–48 billion in building retrofits and energy efficiency, $23–436 billion in transportation, $22–26 billion in environmental justice, land use, air pollution reduction and/or resilience, and $3–21 billion in agriculture.[65][66][67][68][69][70]
However, the law also requires that for federal lands, oil and gas auctions take place before wind and solar leasing, even as it provides for the Interior Department to raise royalty rates on oil and gas projects from 12.5% to 16.7%.[71][72]
The law contained provisions that cap insulin costs at $35/month and will cap out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000 for people on Medicare, among other provisions.[40][44][45] The law also extended Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange subsidies, preventing people making above four times the poverty line from ineligibility for the exchanges.
Several provisions in the initial deal between Schumer and Manchin were changed after negotiations with Senator Sinema: a provision narrowing the carried interest loophole was dropped, a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks was added, manufacturing exceptions were added to the corporate minimum tax (itself having been crafted by Elizabeth Warren and refined by Lawrence Summers and Natasha Sarin),[73][74] and funding for drought relief for western states was added.[75][76][77]
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And I get it. It was his turn
They were always going to get rid of the subsidies
Like, ever? 
pardon my grammatical incompetence. I'm doing the best I can with English as a third language.
...I'm just a poster, standing in front of another poster, asking them to love what I write. 
