Michael Gold
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1,125 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 26 Mar
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think basically what happened here is Democrat like there needs to be a way out of this.
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This can't last forever.
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No one wants us to last forever.
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I think Democrats are basically saying, look, we want to negotiate with you on these Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
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But the argument that they've been making is that they need to deal with this soon because open enrollment for a lot of those plans will open on November 1st and people's rates will start to be affected.
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The conversation, as such as I could hear it, was about the idea that the current Republican plan would go through November 21st.
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And there are some Democratic senators who seem to be saying we need a plan that funds the government, but we need the shorter term plan.
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plan so that we actually have a reason for everyone to come to the table and negotiate on subsidies.
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If we punt this until November 21st, this issue is basically going to be decided.
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The premiums will be what they will be.
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These subsidies won't matter.
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As far as the Gallego comment, you know, one dynamic that I think is very interesting here is there are a lot of far right members on the House who are very opposed to spending increases, who are very opposed to these subsidy increases.
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But this is something that Senate
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And right now the ball is in the Senate's court.
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So my sense, Gallego, Senator from Arizona who was just in the House, was basically saying we need to figure out a deal that passes the Senate and then we'll let the House deal with that.
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There's a lot of back and forth this year where one chamber tries to jam the other.
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You know, the House wasn't here this week and that's because they wanted the Senate to vote on their plan.
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We saw the same thing with the reconciliation tax and spending bill over the summer.
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The Senate packed their bags and went home and forced the House to deal with it.
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