Vice President JD Vance said on Oct. 12 that waste and fraud plague the health care tax credits at the center of a congressional funding impasse that led to the ongoing government shutdown.
Democrats have sought to add an extension of health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act—former President Barack Obama’s health care law, also called Obamacare—into a stopgap measure meant to keep the government funded. But Republicans have refused to discuss it, or any other policy, until the government reopens, noting that the subsidies will not expire until the end of this year.
