The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will end subsidies for private Medicare drug plans, which could result in higher premiums for some seniors right before the midterm elections.[6231305][6186394] Democrats have seized on the decision to end drug plan subsidies as another opportunity to attack Republicans on affordability, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling it 'Heartless, cruel, and completely by choice'.[6186394] The Trump administration's move comes after Democrats were already campaigning on the approximately $1 trillion in health care cuts in Republicans' tax bill from last summer.[6186394]