Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Tuesday that Republican leaders are open to addressing the expiration of health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, but that those talks will happen later this year.
He argued that the Sept. 30 short-term government funding measure needs to be kept “clean” of controversial policy riders.
Thune acknowledged that there’s growing support among Republicans in both the Senate and House to preve...
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Congress’s shutdown showdown intensifies ahead of deadline
Both sides of the aisle are digging in their heels despite dwindling time to strike a deal to avert a government shutdown.
House Republicans are aiming to unveil a mostly “clean,” short-term funding patch to keep the government open come Oct. 1 — but without major concessions on health care that Democrats in both chambers are demanding be part of a stopgap measure.
Pressed on the matter on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters, “that’s a December pol...
Democrats fear falling into GOP trap on government shutdown
Centrist Democrats fear their party could blunder into a government shutdown this month as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) are taking a hard line on the government funding package that needs to pass by Sept. 30.
Democrats broadly agree the looming expiration of enhanced health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — combined with deep cuts to Medicaid that Republicans enacted through the One Big Be...
How An Obamacare Deadline Is Colliding With Shutdown Negotiations
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
Schumer, Jeffries demand major health care concessions to keep government funded
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and other high-ranking Democrats say that any government funding package to keep federal departments operating past Sept. 30 must include major concessions from Republicans to repair what they say is fast becoming a national health care crisis.
“House and Senate, Hakeem and I are in total agreement, what the Republicans are proposing is not good enough for the American people and...
Schumer warns GOP government funding proposals don’t have the votes to pass
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) sent an explicit warning to Republican leaders Wednesday that the proposals they are considering to fund the government and avoid a shutdown on Oct. 1 do not have enough Democratic votes to pass the Senate.
“What the Republicans have proposed is not good enough to meet the needs of the American people and not good enough to get our votes,” Schumer told a group of reporters just off the Senate floor.
“Democrats have alw...
The Movement: Heritage ‘Manhattan Project’ for nuclear family is a-bomb on right
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The Heritage Foundation wants a “Manhattan Project for the nuclear family” to boost marriage and birth rates.
Its draft proposals are landing like an atomic bomb among proponents of free markets who had previously been aligned with the leading conservative think tank.<...
Pressure mounts on GOP leaders to extend ObamaCare subsidies
GOP pressure is mounting on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, as a number of rank-and-file Republicans push leaders to prevent the popular subsidies from expiring at the end of the year.
Eleven GOP lawmakers have endorsed legislation extending the benefits for an additional year, punting the issue beyond the midterm elections. Most of them are vulnerable front-liners facing tough reelection contests — and wary of the ...
Pressure mounts on GOP leaders to extend ObamaCare subsidies
GOP pressure is mounting on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, as a number of rank-and-file Republicans push leaders to prevent the popular subsidies from expiring at the end of the year.
Eleven GOP lawmakers have endorsed legislation extending the benefits for an additional year, punting the issue beyond the midterm elections. Most of them are vulnerable front-liners facing tough reelection contests — and wary of the ...
GOP, Democrats ramp up blame game ahead of shutdown deadline
Lawmakers are laying the groundwork for making sure the other party gets the blame in the event of a government shutdown at the end of the month.
As both sides work out a game plan for funding the government before a Sept. 30 deadline, lawmakers have increasingly been trading insults and pointing fingers over who would be at fault if the lights go out.
In remarks from the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sounded the alarm over t...