Shumita (Shamita) Basu
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365 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Jan
Shumita (Shamita) Basu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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While Epstein dominates Congress in the short term, a longer-term headache remains health care.
Pretty soon, millions of Americans will see their premiums jump as COVID-era subsidies end.
Democrats have been pushing to extend the subsidies.
Republicans are now looking at new ways forward.
Yesterday, President Trump dismissed any extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies in their current form, the ones that were at the center of the shutdown debate, as a waste of time.
Instead, he wants the money diverted to the general public.
Dan Diamond is a White House reporter for The Washington Post.
The other challenge here is time.
Subsidies will expire next month.
Republicans can either back a version of the Democrats' demand to simply extend in a vote that was promised in the Senate as part of the shutdown deal, or they can try and make something of Trump's plan.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says more than 2 million people could end up with no insurance at all next year in the event of no extension or alternative.
Health economists told Diamond that an alternative plan like the one the president has offered would push healthy people to drop coverage and leave sick people behind to deal with skyrocketing premiums.
Health care is one of those key pocketbook issues that can really sway an electorate.
Diamond told us surely some Republicans have that in mind as they're weighing the options in the next month.
ACA subsidies are politically popular.
Around three quarters of Americans say Congress should extend the enhanced subsidies, according to a survey by the nonpartisan health care org KFF.
That includes half of Republicans polled.
Still, some conservative lawmakers and experts say that the subsidies are an expensive artifact of the COVID-19 era and that this is a moment for them to come up with an alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
Iran is in the midst of a major crisis, not a military confrontation or political upheaval.
The crisis is water.
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