{"id":34916,"date":"2025-11-10T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:02:21","slug":"trump-urges-republicans-to-end-obamacare-send-funds-straight-to-the-people-as-govt-shutdown-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34916\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges Republicans to end Obamacare, send funds straight to ‘the people’ as gov’t shutdown drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flight cancellations led to short lines at airports Saturday, while hundreds queued up at some NYC food banks, as the\u00a0federal shutdown hit its 38th day with no end in sight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Airports nationwide had more than 4,200 flights delayed and more than 1,000 canceled after the\u00a0government imposed reductions due to problems with air traffic controllers<\/a>\u00a0who aren\u2019t getting paid during the Democrat-led shutdown.<\/p>\n

Scores of frustrated travelers had to change plans or stay home due to canceled flights; Charlotte Douglas International Airport was slammed with more than 120 cancellations and Newark International Airport followed closely behind with 109.<\/p>\n

A person stands by a baggage carousel in John F. Kennedy Airport as more than 5,000 US flights were cancelled or delayed on Friday during the government shutdown is seen on Saturday. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n

A board displaying dozens of delayed flights is seen at Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport early Saturday. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

Bronx food pantries are seeing long lines this morning as SNAP benefits were cut. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n

It was the second day in a row with more than 1,000 cancellations nationwide after the start of the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s slowdown Friday, according to FlightAware data.<\/p>\n

The shutdown is \u201cjust ridiculous,\u201d said Rachelle Ellery, 38 who was flying out of John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday back home to Oregon after leaving a cruise with her hubby a day early because of a canceled flight. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what else to say about it. They (the politicians) should just get it together so we can get on with our lives,\u201d she told The Post.<\/p>\n

In the Bronx, throngs of desperate locals lined up as early as 2:30 a.m. at food banks because of disruptions in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance benefits caused by the shutdown.<\/p>\n

Carmen Verona told The Post she was there for the time ever because her mom and brother had their benefits cut. Her own $459 monthly SNAP benefits aren\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

Carmen Verola is seen in line at the Open Hand Association Food Pantry in the Bronx. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n

New Yorkers are turning to food banks as SNAP shutdown rolls on. TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the food stamps, it\u2019s a lot \u2026 and that\u2019s not even enough because I always got to put out of pocket like $200, $300 because it\u2019s too expensive,\u201d said Verona, 58, as she picked up fruit, vegetables, and apple juice.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy income is not enough,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Even an end to the shutdown wouldn\u2019t immediately fix problems, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, because it will take time to get beleaguered air traffic controllers back to work.<\/p>\n

Also Saturday, President Trump urged Senate Republicans to end Obamacare and send federal health care spending \u201cdirectly to the people,\u201d taking on what has been a top Democratic talking point about rising health subsidies.<\/p>\n

President Trump urged Senate Republicans to end Obamacare and send federal health-care spending funds \u201cdirectly to the people\u201d as the federal government shutdown stretched into its 38th day. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cI am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,\u201d the\u00a0president wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The Senate held a rare Saturday session after Democrats rejected on Friday a deal that would have reopened at least three federal agencies while temporarily extending government funding. Lawmakers adjourned\u00a0 in the late\u00a0 afternoon without taking any legislative action, with plans to be back in session Sunday.<\/p>\n

Obamacare insurance subsidies are a top negotiating point of Senate Democrats, who have refused to vote for a House-passed bill to reopen the government without heading off subsidies set to balloon at the start of the year.<\/p>\n

Democrats on Friday rejected a new Republican idea to fully fund three agencies while passing short-term temporary funding for the rest of the government.<\/p>\n

The latest gambit by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was a proposal to temporarily reopen the government while extending existing government health care subsidies for a year.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed to temporarily reopen the government while extending health care subsidies for a year. AP<\/p>\n

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But Senate Republicans refused to go along with that idea, saying they will negotiate on the subsidies only after the government opens.<\/p>\n

Schumer tangled with Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno on the floor Saturday, with little sign of progress. \u201cIs there a proposal in writing that we can read?\u201d Moreno pressed him. Schumer complained that the GOP hadn\u2019t put forward its own proposal on healthcare, \u201cso we can\u2019t give you a counter in writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also called to \u201cterminate the Filibuster!\u201d and said Democrats were \u201cdestroying our great, miracle economy\u201d after minority Dems used the 60-vote supermajority rule to defeat efforts to reopen the government. That idea is meeting resistance from within Republicans in the Senate, who fear Democrats would use it against them if they took control.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s plan to partially fund SNAP payments remains snarled in the courts because of a Monday Supreme Court pause. The\u00a0administrative order by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a>\u00a0allows the Trump administration to temporarily withhold benefits after making an emergency request to pause a federal judge\u2019s order.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by JC Rice and Marie Pohl.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight cancellations led to short lines at airports Saturday, while hundreds queued up at some NYC food banks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,153,2564,9,24,63,6863,87,2134,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-34916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-government-shutdown","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-obamacare","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-republicans","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}