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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said he doesn’t want to blow up Obamacare, but he does want to give Americans another option.

Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., made their core shutdown argument about expiring Obamacare subsidies that they argued, if allowed to sunset at the end of this year, would lead to millions of Americans seeing their healthcare premium costs skyrocket.

But Scott and other Republicans contend that simply extending the current subsidies would see billions in taxpayer money funneled to insurance companies, without a dime actually finding its way to the pockets of Americans looking for insurance options.

DEMOCRATS, LEFT EMPTY-HANDED IN SHUTDOWN, TURN FURY ON

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