President Donald Trump has denied reports that he pushed for a two-year extension on healthcare subsidies, branding Obamacare a “disaster.”
Congress is running out of time before the Covid-era Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year. Democrats had tried to use their support of a federal funding bill as a bargaining chip to extend the subsidies, but after what became the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, they failed to deliver on that demand.
