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John Thune: “The Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits, or…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune Joins The Briefing with Steve Scully

Published | Video Starts at 05:13

And I think one of the challenges we have right now is the way some of these programs are designed. You asked the specific question we're dealing with right now where The Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits, or what you call the COVID subsidies, were put in place by the Democrats just a few years ago. They set the expiration date. The reason we're dealing with this expiration date at the end of the year is because they put that in place place. (05:13–05:26)

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Asserts that the enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act were implemented by Democrats a few years ago.

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