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The Chuck Schumer-led Democrats in Congress, following up on their failed weeks-long shutdown of the U.S. government to try to force taxpayers to pay billions of dollars for Obamacare subsidies, have created a new plan to accomplish their goal.

But in reality the "designed to fail" agenda is all about messaging, allowing Democrats to claim Republicans don't want to extend those taxpayer subsidies.

In fact, they don't.

But the problem was created by Democrats alone, and the GOP doesn't feel an urgent need to bail them out.

The issue is that Democrats in the majority then created subsidies, paid for by taxpayers, to Obamacare premiums during the COVID-19 panic. The Democrats scheduled them to expire at the end of this month.

The result, as they are not the majority now and cannot simply extend their largesse, is that those forced into the Obamacare program are facing huge premium increases.

The Schumer Shutdown, which ended only just ended, was about forcing the GOP to raid taxpayers' pockets for some $1.5 trillion for those subsidies. Democrats failed, but now a new report at the Washington Examiner explains their latest.

They have plans to force a vote next week on their idea of extending those expensive subsidies, draining for taxpayers, for three years.

They are pushing the plan even while opposing bipartisan suggestions to address the problem.

The report said that has left Republicans charging the Democrats are in an "unserious attempt to avert skyrocketing out-of-pocket premiums."

What it would do, the report said is, "offer Democrats their latest healthcare messaging opportunity ahead of the 2026 midterm elections."

"It remained unclear whether Republicans, who said Democrats settled on a measure designed to fail, would counterprogram and offer an alternative bill to address health insurance costs," the report explained.

Schumer claimed that Republicans have only one path to work to avoid premium increases, support his agenda.

Republicans have been willing to work on compromise legislation, but they want additional abortion limits, and Democrats have flatly refused to consider that.

GOP members already have proposed shorter extensions, and just minutes before Schumer's announcement, House centrists proposal a bipartisan one-year deal.

"Opting for a more partisan route breathed new fire into Republican accusations that Democrats were insincere about blunting rising costs for most of the 24 million marketplace recipients who are forecasted to leave millions without the ability to afford insurance," the report said.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said, "This is not an offer that they're trying to get Republican buy-in at all. That's not it. This is complete messaging on their part."