period, and slashing funding to help people sign up and take other steps to destabilize the exchange. but ending csr payments is the most overt, destructive bit of sabotage to date. and that will drive up premiums by double-digit and cause more ensurers to leave and leave people without insurance in the next year. as the ceo of one insurance company put it on a conference call. if you want to have a great health plan, you wouldn't be doing this. and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi call the move a spiteful act of vast pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corning of america. the question now is what exactly the president is demanding for ransom. according to mick mulvaney told politico it could be a bargaining chip to repeal the obamacare act or to fund the border wall with mexico.