ABC White House correspondent Selina Wang stopped by Saturday’s Good Morning America to put her thumb on the scales for Senate Democrats’ latest proposal to end the government shutdown. While Wang omitted any reason why the deal was not worth taking seriously, she also rolled out former President Joe Biden to claim that President Trump is “deliberately making hunger worse” for people.
Wang reported that, “Democrats are offering to reopen the government if Republicans agree to extend Obamacare subsidies for one year to prevent healthcare insurance premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans.”
After a clip of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claiming the deal was “a very simple compromise,” Wang played two brief additional clips from Sens. Roger Marshall and Lindsey Graham rejecting the proposal, but neither clip provided any explanation why they might do so. For Republicans, Schumer’s proposal is a can-kicking exercise that gives Democrats no incentive to actually negotiate because the prospect of using health care as a midterm issue is too alluring. Additionally, in the future, there will be other scenarios like this where the government needs to be funded and Republicans do not want to give Democrats the precedent of believing they will be able to bully their way to unrelated concessions.
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