Latino Families Cannot Afford the Trump Administration’s Health Care Cost Spike

Today officially marks the longest federal government shutdown in American history. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers– about 10% of whom are Latino and 30% of whom are veterans–are missing their paychecks. Families across the country are being forced to choose between paying for groceries, rent and medical care. The truth is: President Trump and his allies in Congress are inflicting this pain because they would rather shut down the government than deal with the looming health care crisis that will explode costs for more than 170 million Americans.

This is a crisis of the administration’s own making and was entirely avoidable. That’s because Trump and Congress are about to let a key funding program for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the extended tax credits, expire. Without that f