The Senate Democrats, the same people who are kicking and screaming now and shutting the government down, pulled that provision out of the bill and refused to do it. And what they're demanding right now is They want a full extension, permanent extension of the subsidies, which would not save 30 billion. It would cost taxpayers $358 billion. And by the way, it would only reduce premiums by an estimated less than 6%, 5.8%. Okay, so consider that we were going to save a lot of money, billions and billions, tens of billions of dollars. (23:29–23:38)
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Asserts that Democrats' proposed subsidy extension would cost $358 billion.
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