Time running out for millions

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., continues to fight the good fight in his recent letter to congressional members noting that the Affordable Care Act tax credits would soon expire, hurting working-class Americans throughout the country tremendously if they do. “It’s time for the do-nothing Republican Congress to proceed with urgency,” he wrote.

If the tax credits expire, the average enrollee will see their monthly health insurance premiums more than double, increasing by about $1,000 per year for the average enrollee.

And we shouldn’t kid ourselves into believing that the Trump administration is going to devise a substitute for the ACA and its tax credits, when the president has always claimed he would replace the ACA but never produced a plan to do so, even admitting in a 2024 presidential debate he had only some nebulous “concept of a plan.”

State representatives in federal government should consider the national good, as this is the United States of America.

About 22 million Americans will be hurt if the tax credits are not extended. I hope the decision of Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto to vote to reopen the government was not solely for the benefit of rich resort owners, Formula One fans and sponsors of the recently run Las Vegas Grand Prix.