FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a major bombshell on the massive Minnesota fraud scandal on Sunday, revealing that the FBI is pushing for denaturalization and deportation of many involved in the $250 million scheme that ripped off taxpayer dollars meant for hungry kids during COVID. Patel made it clear this is “just the tip of a very large iceberg,” with investigations ramping up to expose even more corruption in federal programs.

In a lengthy statement posted to X in response to the massively viral video uncovering Somali scams by independent journalist Nick Shirley, Patel detailed the takedown of a $250 million scheme centered around the Feeding Our Future network.

This organization, which was supposed to distribute federal food aid to children in need, instead became a hub for sham vendors, shell companies, and large-scale money laundering.

CASE UPDATE: MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME

The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 28, 2025

Patel wrote in full:

CASE UPDATE: MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME

The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. Fraud that steals from taxpayers and robs vulnerable children will remain a top FBI priority in Minnesota and nationwide.

To date, the FBI dismantled a $250 million fraud scheme that stole federal food aid meant for vulnerable children during COVID. The investigation exposed sham vendors, shell companies, and large-scale money laundering tied to the Feeding Our Future network.

The case led to 78 indictments and 57 convictions. Defendants included Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud, Ahmed Ali, Hussein Farah, Abdullahe Nur Jesow, Asha Farhan Hassan, Ousman Camara, and Abdirashid Bixi Dool, each charged for roles ranging from wire fraud to money laundering and conspiracy.

These criminals didn’t just engaged in historic fraud, but tried to subvert justice as well. Abdimajid Mohamed Nur and others were charged for attempting to bribe a juror with $120,000 in cash. Those responsible pleaded guilty and were sentenced, including a 10-year prison term and nearly $48 million in restitution in related cases.

The FBI believes this is just the tip of a very large iceberg. We will continue to follow the money and protect children, and this investigation very much remains ongoing.

Furthermore, many are also being referred to immigrations officials for possible further denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible.

2025 | Cassandra MacDonald

Successful American politicians always know how to pick savvy mentors.

JFK had the speechwriter and strategist Ted Sorensen.

Donald Trump had the Machiavellian operative Roy Cohn.

And Zohran Mamdani has . . . Ms. Rachel.

Why would the man about to be sworn in as mayor of America’s largest city elevate a woke, anti-Israel YouTube children’s entertainer to his inner circle, appointing her as a prime member of his inaugural committee?

Simple: Because Mamdani himself is a child.

The statement is both literally and figuratively true.

At 34, New York’s mayor-elect has held no job of any real significance.

He has no experience running anything, managing anyone, or dealing with challenges on any scale.

But he also belongs to a cohort of young, privileged Americans taught by radical college professors that politics is the art of throwing public temper tantrums, making ludicrous pledges, and worrying not at all about how to fix anything in the real world.

It shouldn’t be all too surprising, then, that Mamdani would turn for inspiration to Ms. Rachel (real name Rachel Anne Accurso), whose latest video teaches a stuffie named Bean Bear how to use the potty.

At 43, she’s old enough to be Mamdani’s cool adjunct professor, introducing him to Karl Marx and inviting him to his first walk-out for Gaza.

And her public persona, just like Mamdani’s, is a political drag show involving smiling a lot and speaking sweetly while pushing the most unhinged progressive agendas imaginable on an audience not nearly mature enough to know any better.

Two years ago, for example, Ms. Rachel was forced to briefly step down from her platform — which currently has a mind-boggling 18.3 million subscribers — after she had an androgynously dressed colleague with facial piercings introduce the tots at home to a gender-non-binary puppet by sweetly cooing “their name is Patches.”

And when Hamas’ marauders crossed the border into Israel and slaughtered men, women and children in their homes, Ms. Rachel was silent, emerging only weeks later as a vocal champion of the only toddlers whose lives she holds dear — Palestinians.

Earlier this year, she sat down with the former Qatari-paid shill Mehdi Hasan to talk about “the precious children [who] have been un-alived in Gaza,” repeating claims that were as laughingly inaccurate as her grammar.

You shouldn’t count on Mamdani’s other consiglieri to right the ship, either.

That list includes luminaries like Cynthia Nixon, everyone’s least-favorite “Sex and the City” cast member, and parenting podcaster Katia Reguero Lindor, the wife of New York Met Francisco Lindor.

Throughout the mayor-elect’s campaign, much attention has been paid to Mamdani’s anti-Jewish sentiments, from his refusal to condemn such phrases as “globalize the Intifada” to his affiliation with known supporters of terrorism like Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom federal prosecutors named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

These decisions speak volumes about Mamdani’s moral character, but his selection of Ms. Rachel is more troubling still.

It shows not only Jews but New Yorkers of all persuasions that their new mayor’s inner circle is populated not by seasoned and serious adults passionate about governing, but by influencers best known for their rendition of “The Wheels on the Bus.”

If you’re wondering what the next four years under Mamdani portend, spend a few minutes on Ms. Rachel’s channel and ask yourself if this is the person you’d like to have the mayor’s ear when it comes to instructing the NYPD, say, or coming up with a sensible and realistic housing policy.

And ask, too, why the child mayor, having his pick of advisors, chose a social media star just as famous for her crazed political views as she is for getting kids to learn their ABCs and their zoo animals.

Any competent and committed public servant should have known better than to allow someone like the cloying kiddie crooner pushing lunatic ideologies anywhere near the levers of power.

That Mamdani rushed to anoint Ms. Rachel as his advisor is further proof, as if any further proof was needed, that New York is about to be governed by the most infantile crew ever placed at the helm of a major American municipality.

Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

American Christianity includes more than 200 denominations. One of the fastest growing is the orthodoxy of Woke. Woke Christianity is the single greatest threat to the modern church since the first century.

There are two ways to tell if your church or religious organization has gone woke. First, what’s missing? And second, what replaced what’s missing?

If sound biblical preaching about sin, salvation, Jesus’ virgin birth, and other teachings are absent, that’s not woke; it’s just weak. But if those essentials were replaced by Critical Race Theory (CRT), tolerance, and a watered-down social Gospel, a woke cancer is growing.

The church has adapted to the landscape of society for ages, in most cases, harmlessly. Stained glass sanctuaries gave way to coffee shops. Hymns became “worship” — change happens. Is social justice merely another minor adjustment, or is “progress” just a deception in disguise?

A Black Lives Matter logo or rainbow banner would be an obvious red flag (pun intended). If pastor Samuel is now Samantha, do not walk away, run! Most warning signs are less obvious. How can you discern if an organization is relevant versus woke?

What is woke in a church context? Webster defines woke as: “Aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially racial and social justice).” While it can be other things, woke is most often applied to race issues, so let’s focus there.

Woke ascribes to the unbiblical philosophy that only two groups exist in history: The oppressed and the oppressors. Wealthy, educated, successful people are oppressors; everyone else is oppressed. To question the sacred doctrine of CRT is to be racist.

Jesus ministered to everyone crossing racial, ethnic, and national lines. We should be aware of injustice and oppression. Justice for the weak and oppressed is urged in Scripture (Isa. 1:17; Micah 6:8). God is not an elitist. He shows partiality to no one (Gal. 2:6, Eph. 6:9) — few Christians would argue otherwise.

Christians lead the world in helping the poor, elderly, widows, and orphans (Psalm 68:5) as we should. In 2021, American Christians donated over $145 Billion to charities, making Christians by far the most loving, caring people in the world, but that’s insufficient for the woke.

Wokeness teaches that we are not responsible for our own lives. We’re born privileged or oppressed. The Bible says we are personally accountable for our sins (James 1:13-15). God created us all equal. Acts 17:26 says we are all created “of one blood.” The sin of racism requires repentance, like any other sin. Wokeness replaces repentance with reparations.

Here are four of many warning signs your organization is going woke.

Traditional biblical doctrines redefined or “reinterpreted”

God’s word is timeless and unchanging. It applied when Moses wrote Genesis, and it applies now. “Every good and perfect thing comes from God, the Father of lights who does not change” (James 1:17).

Moral standards mirror “norms” instead of Jesus

When did “norm” replace right? Norms change. Sin is sin. The Bible is the inspired word of God, and salvation comes by faith alone in Jesus alone (Acts 4:12). If a pastor cannot articulate a faith statement that agrees with those basics, you must leave. You owe it to God to honor His word, His promises, His authority, and His Son’s sacrifice at Calvary.

Personal experience over biblical truth

There is no “your truth;” there is only God’s truth. If a church emphasizes life experiences over biblical facts, they’re wrong. Get out. Life experiences shape our personality, but they can be incorrect. God and the Bible are not. Focus your faith on what cannot change: “I am the Lord. I change not!” (Malachi 3:6).

Don’t judge!

Sixty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed a dream that all people would be judged by the contents of their hearts, not the color of their skin. Now, the woke crowd demands that we judge, segregate, and condemn based on skin, race, and (assumed) privilege.

Wokeness is wicked, insidious, shifty, and deceitful. What’s woke this week won’t be woke enough next. What’s the solution? Judgment, discernment, moral conviction, and courage.

Contrary to the woke world, Jesus commands us to judge. He says it clearly, using the exact opposite criteria from the woke tolerate anything mob:

“Stop judging outward appearances and start judging justly” (John 7:24). Yes — The Son of God tells people to wisely, righteously . . . judge.

The antidote for woke is a biblical worldview. The two cannot coexist. God offers people something much better than being “woke”; through His Word, a life of being “awake.”

Alex McFarland

The Kennedy Center’s free Christmas Eve Jazz Jam did not take place in 2025 for the first time in more than two decades. The long-standing holiday tradition was canceled after the board of trustees voted to rename the venue the “Trump Kennedy Center,” adding President Donald Trump’s name alongside John F. Kennedy’s.

Jazz drummer and vibraphonist Chuck Redd, who had hosted the concert since 2006, canceled the performance after seeing the name change appear on the Kennedy Center website and then on the building itself. The decision was announced only days before Christmas, with no replacement programming and no detailed explanation, leaving families who had planned their holiday around the event without the concert they had attended for years.

The Christmas Eve Jazz Jam was a completely free public-service event held at 6 p.m. as part of the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage program, which was created specifically to make the performing arts accessible to everyone.

The concert typically featured seven professional jazz musicians and drew families, students, elderly residents, and visitors who could not afford ticketed Kennedy Center performances. The tradition dated back to the early 2000s, with Redd taking over hosting duties from bassist William “Keter” Betts in 2006.

Redd is an internationally recognized musician with a long and secure career. The Christmas Eve Jazz Jam was a free public-service performance, meaning its cancellation carried no meaningful financial or professional cost to him.

The cancellation removed one of the few professional-caliber holiday events in Washington that required no ticket purchase and disproportionately affected members of the public who relied on free programming for access to the arts. It did not affect political leaders, Kennedy Center board members, President Trump, or major donors, none of whom depended on Millennium Stage performances.

The Christmas Eve cancellation occurred amid a broader wave of artist withdrawals from the Kennedy Center following Trump’s second inauguration. At least 26 performances were canceled, including self-withdrawals by Issa Rae, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington.

During the same period, Trump personally hosted the Kennedy Center Honors, announced honorees publicly, and selected performers with broad popular appeal, including Sylvester Stallone, KISS, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, and Michael Crawford.

Aside from the irreverence toward Christmas, the disrespect shown to the performers, and the decision to rob families of a long-standing free public Christmas Eve concert, there is also a serious legal issue involving statutory interpretation.

Critics of the renaming argue that federal law explicitly prohibits adding Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center. They cite three statutory provisions: 20 U.S.C. § 76q, which designates the Center as “the sole national memorial” to John F. Kennedy in Washington; 20 U.S.C. § 76i, which names the building by statute; and 20 U.S.C. § 76j(b), which bars the installation of “additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials” in public areas after 1983.

Legal experts and Democratic lawmakers argue that because Congress named the building through legislation, only Congress has the authority to alter that designation. Rep. Joyce Beatty’s lawsuit characterizes the renaming as a “flagrant violation of the rule of law.”

The statutory language, however, is more limited than critics claim. Under 20 U.S.C. § 76q (1964), Congress designated the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as “the sole national memorial to the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy within the city of Washington and its environs.” That provision establishes the Center’s purpose as a memorial to Kennedy, but it does not explicitly prohibit adding another name to the building’s designation.

Congress addressed additions directly in 1983 when it enacted 20 U.S.C. § 76j(b), titled “Restriction on additional memorials.” That amendment prohibits the designation or installation of additional memorials or plaques in the public areas of the Kennedy Center after December 2, 1983, with narrow exceptions for plaques acknowledging foreign gifts, plaques on theater chairs or boxes, and inscriptions recognizing major contributions. The restriction applies specifically to interior public areas and to physical memorials or plaques.

That distinction is critical. Trump’s name was added to the exterior building designation, not installed as an additional memorial or plaque inside the Center. The statute prohibits transforming the Kennedy Center into a memorial for someone else, but adding Trump’s name does not replace Kennedy or strip the Center of its identity as a memorial to JFK. Kennedy remains named, honored, and memorialized exactly as before.

If Congress intended to impose an absolute prohibition on modifying the building’s designation or adding any other name under any circumstances, it could have stated so plainly. Instead, when Congress wanted to restrict additions, it did so with precise language in 1983, narrowly targeting interior memorials and plaques. The absence of similarly explicit language barring exterior designation changes undermines claims of a clear statutory violation.

Democrats argue that “sole memorial” must mean Kennedy alone and that the board lacks authority to approve any renaming without congressional action. But that reading goes beyond what the statute actually says. The law designates the Center as a memorial to JFK; it does not state that no other individual’s name may ever appear alongside his, nor does it prohibit co-honoring another president in the building’s exterior designation. Claims that the renaming is an obvious violation of federal law rely more on political outrage than on statutory text, which is far more ambiguous than critics admit.

Antonio Graceffo, Gateway Pundit

Democratic Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan praised Somali migrants in the state during a visit to a market in a video posted on YouTube Thursday.

President Donald Trump announced in November that he would end “Temporary Protected Status” for Somalis in the state in response to allegations of welfare fraud and said that the influx of refugees had “destroyed our country.” Flanagan, who wore a hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women, during her visit to the market, held a microphone during the video posted by Somali TV of Minnesota

“Salam Alaikum. My name’s Peggy Flanagan. I am the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, and I’m really honored and humbled to be here with all of you today,” Flanagan said. “I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota. I think about my friendship with Nimco. We’ve been friends for almost 25 years and when I think of being part of Minnesota and growing up here, the Somali community has always been a part of my Minnesota.”

“So I want to just encourage the community to know that we’re with you, we’ve got your back,” Flanagan continued. “I am here shopping today and just encourage other folks to show up, support our Somali businesses, support our immigrant neighbors and I know that things are scary right now, and just know that there are more people who are looking out for you, there are more people who are here to support you than you know.”

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is surging into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after revelations involving at least $1 billion in fraud, with the Treasury Department investigating allegations that some of the proceeds from the scheme went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Estimates of the fraud have increased to at least $9 billion, according to federal officials, noting that multiple programs were targeted.

State employees accused Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota of engaging in “systemic” retaliation against whistleblowers who warned of the fraud schemes on Nov. 30 as the Justice Department is prosecuting multiple federal cases. Walz admitted thatthe state “attracts criminals,” but demanded that Somali residents not be demonized during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“I will continue to stand with the Somali community, to be with you, and to do all I can to return the friendship and community that the Somali community has shown me,” Flanagan said.

Harold Hutchison

Luke 2:1-20New International Version

The Birth of Jesus

2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. ² (This was the first census that took place while^[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) ³ And everyone went to their own town to register.

⁴ So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. ⁵ He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. ⁶ While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, ⁷ and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

⁸ And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. ⁹ An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. ¹¹ Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

¹³ Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

¹⁴ “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
    and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

¹⁵ When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

¹⁶ So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. ¹⁷ When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, ¹⁸ and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. ¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. ²⁰ The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

Luke 1, Verses 1-20

President Trump has called on supporters to protest his expected arrest next week by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on bogus charges arising out of the alleged 2016 Stormy Daniels hush money arrangement. Several so-called influencers are warning supporters to stay home to avoid being entrapped by the feds into another January 6 riot.

As one of the most experienced conservative street activists who was active in our Nation’s Capital for over a decade, I want to offer my advice on whether to go out and protest (yes) and how to do it.

First, some background. I was active in the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com from 1998 into the early 2010s, but mostly through the end of 2007 when I left the area and returned a few times a year. I organized hundreds of street protests and counter-protests against President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and other corrupt Democrat politicians. I organized an annual protest of liberal media bias outside the White House Correspondents Dinner for about fifteen years. Through Free Republic, Move America Forward and the Gathering of Eagles, we organized several rallies and counter-rallies supporting our troops in the war on terror in the years after 9/11. On a few occasions, we acted as human shields against the violent left and radical Islamists, protecting The White House, the Danish Embassy, Armed Forces Recruiting stations and even the Washington Post. I also helped organize the FReeper inaugural ball in 2005 attended by nearly 1,000 guests or so.

We dealt with D.C. Police, Capitol Police, Park Police, Secret Service, various other federal law enforcement agencies and the military in demonstrations at the White House, Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Arlington Cemetery, the old Walter Reed Army Hospital, the Vice President’s Residence, aka “Cheney’s House”, and many locales in and around D.C.

We faced off against communists, anarchists, Black Bloc (pre-Antifa), Code Pink, ANSWER, radical Islamists, Democrats, RINOs, dishonest media and the Westboro Baptist Church extremists.

We did all that by being peaceful and behaving in a civilized manner at all times. We hade a code of conduct that served us well.

Briefly, it read, “No violence, no racism, no profanity, no provocations, obey the law and treat all law enforcement officers with respect.”

Krisstin Taylor, Gateway Pundit

Hunter Biden just shocked the Democrat party by essentially condemning his father’s entire four years in the White House.

During a rare interview on the ‘Shawn Ryan Show’ while promoting his new book, Hunter called out Joe Biden’s immigration policies for failing the American people and prioritizing illegals over veterans.

“We don’t want immigrants coming here illegally, DRAINING us of resources, and being prioritized above people that are actual, literal heroes. People that are still recovering from years of endless war, or anybody else in our society,” Hunter said.

Maybe this is why his family tries so hard to keep Hunter out of the public eye.

Watch for yourself:

VIDEO AT LINK……………..

Hunter Biden: “We don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and being prioritized above… anybody in our society.”

A stunning indictment of his father’s four years in office. pic.twitter.com/U6ZYF7Hc1D— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 23, 2025

It’s very rare that I agree with Hunter Biden on something.

But this time, he’s right.

It’s estimated that around 11 million illegal immigrants crossed the border underneath Joe Biden, thanks largely to the open-border policies under his administration.

These are illegals that contribute nothing to the U.S. while siphoning away taxpayer-funded benefits and opportunities from hardworking, law-abiding American citizens.

As Hunter Biden just proved, it doesn’t take a genius to recognize the unfairness of that.

It’s really saying something when a crackpot like Hunter Biden has a better policy on immigration than his father’s previous administration.

This reply on that clip is just hilarious, but I have to agree:

Wait. Hold up, I knew he knows how to cook other things but damn he cooked here.— Jeremy (@Jeremy_rhetor) December 23, 2025

Your thoughts?

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

The US Vice President added that Europe’s immigration policies have caused a significant backlash from the native population

LONDON, December 22. /TASS/. The erroneous economic and migration policies of European countries have led to cultural stagnation and discontent among the continent’s population, US Vice President JD Vance said.

“I think their economic policies have produced very broad-based continental stagnation. Their immigration policies have caused a significant backlash from the native population. I think that Europe doesn’t have a very good sense of itself right now, and you see that reflected in various measures of economic and cultural stagnation,” he said in an interview with the British portal UnHerd.

“We want it to be much more self-sufficient, much more self-reliant. And look, the reality is, America sprang out of European civilization. We are fundamentally descended from a lot of European ideas. That’s why we want a stronger Europe,” the US vice president said, adding that “a lot of this is something I think the Europeans have to do themselves.”

Vance paid special attention to the role of Christianity. “When I talk about America having some common culture, I think Christianity is very much at the heart of that. With the exception of [Thomas] Jefferson and a couple of others, most of our Founding Fathers were devout Christians,” he said.

Earlier, Vance repeatedly criticized European countries for obstructing the settlement in Ukraine, moving away from Christian values, encouraging uncontrolled migration and suppressing dissent. His most notable speech was at the international security conference in Munich in February, where he criticized the EU for censorship, including the blocking of social networks. He stressed that in this form, Europe is useless for the United States, as it is afraid even of its own voters. Chairman of the conference Christoph Heusgen called the conference Europe’s nightmare after Vance’s speech.

When insurance costs more than survival, coverage is just a word.

Obamacare didn’t protect families, it priced them into submission.

A system that only works for the rich or the dependent is not a safety net.

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BRIEFING

It’s been just over a decade since Obamacare was implemented, and for a majority of Americans, it’s done jack diddly squat for them. As a matter of fact, one American family sat down, did the Obamacare math honestly, and realized that working, paying premiums, and playing by the rules still left them staring at a literal dead end. Let’s break it down.

One woman with five kids recently made a video where she lays out her income, her family size, and her insurance options, and what she was given were literally laughable. First option is $1,100 a month through an employer plan, and the second is a staggering $1,600 a month through the ACA, with a deductible so high it turns coverage into a technicality instead of protection.

SOURCE

American family has 5 kids. She makes $2,600 per month after taxes

The cheapest option she could get for health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace is $1,700 per month with a $17,000 deductible

Barack Obama destroyed our healthcare system

“$1,600 a month for a $17,000 deductible and they will only pay 50% after I meet that deductible So I’m thinking we’re just gonna go die”

American family has 5 kids. She makes $2,600 per month after taxes

The cheapest option she could get for health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace is $1,700 per month with a $17,000 deductible

Barack Obama destroyed our healthcare system

“$1,600 a month for a… pic.twitter.com/hEbeR8B6Ye— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 16, 2025

This is the stark reality of Obamacare for your average American family. Honestly, to benefit at all from this program, you either have to be earning well over $300k a year or be destitute. But for those in the middle who can’t afford the monthly premium or receive the subsidies that make ACA affordable, they’re literally left to fend for themselves.

Which, speaking of those subsidies, those are close to being on their way out. The enhanced premium tax credits — which made ACA plans more affordable — are slated to expire at the end of 2025, potentially forcing millions to pay much more or lose coverage entirely.

It’s hard to imagine that after the subsidies go away that anyone besides the extremely wealthy will be able to afford Obamacare.

SOURCE

Should the enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire on December 31, the roughly 22.4 million people relying on these subsidies would be hit with steep increases in their health insurance premiums starting in 2026.

Their premiums could more than double next year, per a preview of the available plans released by the Trump administration.

Millions more would lose subsidized ACA marketplace coverage, and roughly 3.8 million people are projected to lose health insurance coverage entirely and become uninsured each year from 2026 to 2034 due to high costs, per the Congressional Budget Office.

Around 47% of American adults reported fears that they would not be able to cover the cost of necessary health care should the tax credits expire, per a West Health-Gallup poll from last month.

DEBRIEFING

So folks, this is what Obamacare really looks like once you strip away slogans and subsidies and force it to operate in the real world. A working family does the math, and the math clearly tells them there is no version of the program that actually offers them security. The premiums eat income, deductibles make coverage downright theoretical, and care is postponed not because people are irresponsible, but because the entire system prices it out of reach.

But keep in mind, this entire outcome is not accidental. Obamacare at its core only functions smoothly inside narrow income bands. Make very little, and subsidies soften the blow, but if you’re someone who makes a great deal, the costs become inconvenient but still manageable. While everyone in between has the literal life squeezed out of them.

Then the whole issue of expiring subsidies exposes this design flaw of Obamacare completely. Democrats sold those tax credits as proof the system worked, but they were never a real long-term solution. Instead, they were simply a stabilizer, propping up a structure that cannot stand on its own. And make no mistake, once they disappear, the entire grand illusion goes with them.

NOW YOU KNOW

Obamacare doesn’t fail families. It prices them out.

Grant Mercer