Clio Chang at Splinter writes:
“The new spending deal that Paul Ryan has put on the table to avert a looming government shutdown is a disgrace. In exchange for a stopgap measure that would fund the government for a month—something that comes with even more corporate tax cuts for multibillion dollar health insurance companies—Ryan is offering a measly six-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance program. In other words, he’s turning the funding of children’s healthcare into a bargaining chip to get Democrats to vote to keep the entire country running.”