Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting.

Republicans running for reelection know their One Big Beautiful Bill will cause millions to lose health insurance. It is already hiking the cost of buying coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Republicans are scared.

President Donald Trump says wait till 2026 for his economic policies to bring prices down. This was supposed to happen on his "Day One." Inflation continues untamed. Add in weak job numbers and we have stagflation. Nothing Trump is doing would change this trajectory, and Americans feel it. Polls show them unhappy a

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