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Trump was stupid to put his signature on this lie — it will blow up in his face
What happened
RawStory reports that the Trump White House planned to mail roughly one million ACA marketplace customers $500 checks bearing Donald Trump’s signature, accompanied by a letter claiming the Biden administration had overcharged them and withheld the money. Trump repeated that accusation in a video, but the article says the administration supplied no supporting accounting.
The outlet cites KFF’s Larry Levitt, who said the surplus likely originated during Trump’s first term, when his administration collected more in marketplace user fees than it spent while limiting enrollment…
The skinny
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