President Trump on Monday called on Democrats to reopen the government, saying he will only discuss a potential deal on extending health care tax credits once they support the GOP funding proposal.
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump appeared to shift from his earlier comments on Monday, when he signaled he was open to a deal with Democrats on health care, an issue at the core of the shutdown debate.
“Democrats have SHUT DOWN the United States Government right i...
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Senate rejects dueling government funding bills on Day 6 of shutdown
The Senate on Monday pushed the government shutdown to the one-week mark as Democrats blocked the GOP's "clean" stopgap funding bill from advancing for a fifth time.
Senators voted 52-42 on the House-passed bill, which needed 60 votes to advance and would have funded the government at Biden-era spending levels until late November. The tally has remained virtually unchanged, other than absences, since the shutdown started last Wednesday.
The trio of Sens. Catherine...
Schiff on shutdown: ‘We need a president who can act like an adult’
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) went after President Trump over the government shutdown, saying Sunday that the U.S. requires “a president who can act like an adult.”
“How confident are you that Democrats will stay united in this fight?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Schiff on “Meet the Press” about the shutdown.
“I'm confident all Democrats understand that millions and millions of their constituents are about to be priced out of their health care. I was in Californ...
Republicans ‘going to cave’ on Democrats’ health care demand: Marc Short
Marc Short predicted in an interview on Sunday that Republicans will fold under pressure from Democrats to extend ObamaCare subsidies to end the government shutdown.
“I think, sadly, Republicans are going to cave on this in the end. The bottom line is that Democrats were really shrewd when they put the ObamaCare subsidies in the plan,” Short, who served as former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, said on NBC News’s "Meet the Press."
"It bought off insura...
More disapprove of how GOP, Trump are handling shutdown than Democrats: Survey
Most Americans, regardless of party lines, disapprove of the handling of the government shutdown, which is now in its sixth day.
But President Trump and Republicans fare worse on how the shutdown is being handled, with 52 percent of people surveyed disapproving. Democrats trail, with a 49 percent disapproval rating, according to CBS News polling.
Among those polled, 39 percent blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, while 30 percent blame De...
Trump aloof as lawmakers fear protracted shutdown
President Trump, whom Democrats say is the only Republican leader who can break the government funding stalemate, has stayed out of the fray on Capitol Hill, leaving lawmakers in both parties pessimistic about reaching a deal until he engages in serious talks.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Friday that he will stick with his plan of forcing Senate Democrats to keep voting on a House-passed seven-week resolution to fund the government, but the measure has...
Why Congress is running out of time for an ObamaCare deal
Republicans in Congress have refused to negotiate an extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits as part of talks to end the shutdown, arguing there is plenty of time to negotiate over ObamaCare once the government is funded.
“That is an issue for the end of the year. Dec. 31 is when that expires,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a briefing Friday. “So, Congress has three months to negotiate that. Certainly, we could work on it in the month of October to find s...
Most Americans believe the shutdown will last two weeks or less: Survey
A new poll shows most Americans say they believe the government shutdown will last for two weeks or less, as Congress grapples with the public fallout from the first shutdown in about six years.
The YouGov survey, published on Friday, found that 41 percent of Americans think the federal closure will last for two weeks or less. Within that share, 16 percent of respondents expected the shutdown to last for less than a week, while 25 percent said the shuttering could last for ...
House GOP leaders urge unity in shutdown canceled-votes strategy
House Republican leaders urged unity in their shutdown fight against Democrats on a call with GOP members Saturday morning, with members on the call backing up Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) move to cancel previously-scheduled votes next week as they aim to pressure Senate Democrats into accepting their “clean” seven-week funding bill.
There is some wiggle room in the schedule, though, if senators strike a deal that requires the House to return to Washington and pass a comp...
Deep distrust hinders path to shutdown deal
The stalemate over how to reopen the government is being inflamed by something no policy provision can fix: A deep-seeded distrust between the leaders of the parties.
The trust gap has a lengthy history and a profusion of roots. But it's resurfacing now over the thorny issue driving the budget impasse: Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
Republicans say they're open to discussing the topic, but they’re insisting those talks happen l...