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John Thune: “The Democrats created the expiration date when they did…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:50

And one of the ways you have to do that is you've got to change that incentive structure that's currently baked into these enhanced Covid credits, which, by the way, The Democrats created the expiration date when they did this. They could have done this permanently and they didn't. I hear that. But at the same time, when you see estimates from the Kaiser Family foundation, for example, that says on average a 60 year old couple making $85,000 would see yearly premiums in 20, 26 rise $22,000. (02:50–02:55)

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Asserts that Democrats set the expiration date for the enhanced Covid credits.

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