As politicians deadlock in Washington, Skylar Trujillo, a Florida mother with breast cancer, is scared she won’t be able to find the low-cost health insurance she needs during her treatment.

Trujillo, 29, said pandemic-era subsidies allowed her to secure coverage for $14 a month through the Affordable Care Act, informally known as Obamacare.

But that help is set to expire at the end of the year, an issue that is at the center of the ongoing government shutdown that has now dragged into a new month.

“That $14 premium is saving my life,” said Trujillo, a Spring Hill mother of four who was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and spoke at a Florida Democratic Party news conference Monday. “For my premium to go up … to even $50 a month, it would potentially push my family over a financial cliff. I

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