«Advisers are worried that the GOP will take the blame for allowing healthcare subsidies to expire, raising costs for millions of Americans ahead of next year’s midterm elections, according to administration officials.»

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-government-shutdown-healthcare-risk-d5b7e197?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink (gift)

*snerk*

They couldn’t see this coming? Or they KNEW it was coming and they KNEW they’d have to negotiate something and they KNEW it would just raise the deficit even more and they just didn’t talk about it?

Republicans are either stupid or dishonest. Pick one.