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Shelley Moore Capito: “These bonuses were never meant to be permanent.”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

Capito Speech on Senate Floor on Healthcare Reform

Published November 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:39

And let's not forget what these subsidies are from. They're out of the COVID era, from the health care that they created and proudly call Obamacare, which none of us voted for. And These bonuses were never meant to be permanent. Never. Or they could have attempted to make them permanent themselves. So they set them to expire this year. (06:39–06:43)

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