Charles Jackson Editor
EDITORIAL
The Democratic senators who voted to advance the funding bill, handing the MAGA Republicans an opportunity to end ACA were Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Jacky Rosen (NV), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Independent Senator Angus King (ME), who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted in favor.
The Senate has advanced the funding bill (by procedural vote) but it has not yet passed Congress or been signed into law. It still needs a final vote in the Senate and then must be approved by the House of Representatives.
President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, and next to Roe –
v- Wade, the ACA has been on the resident’s seek and destroy list every since President Obama “clowned” Donald Trump was at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he heavily mocked trumplethinskin over the “birther” conspiracy theory.
Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, and Angus King (I)—are up for re-election in 2026, and could face formidable primary challenges. Dick Durbin and Jeanne Shaheen are retiring and not seeking re-election in 2026. Unless John Fetterman switches to the MAGA party, he will not face his primary challenge until 2028.
Thank you all for your service, albeit a service to which no snitch will be rewarded.
