Taken together, they amount to a cynical GOP ploy to destroy the reforms instituted by the Affordable Care Act, and in expanding Medicaid — a wildly popular program — that gives health care to millions more people. The notion that President Trump and congressional Republicans would agree to negotiate these health care issues after Democrats pass a short-term spending bill is, in a word, laughable. Last March, a shutdown was narrowly averted, only because Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to drop Democratic demands around health care funding. We will not let Trump and the MAGA movement take away your health care. Any government that strips health care from its own citizens should be shut down.