A trio of Democratic senators — Chris Murphy (Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Tina Smith (Minn.) — traveled to South Florida on Monday to address rising health care costs amid the government shutdown.
In a video Murphy posted to social platform X, the Connecticut lawmaker said they traveled to the area to speak with “regular Floridians” about impending premium increases.
“I’m here because I think that nobody should go bankrupt over a bad medical diagnosis,” Wa...
Moderate House Dems, GOP release ‘principles’ for ObamaCare subsidy extension
A quartet of bipartisan House lawmakers on Monday proposed a framework to temporarily extend ObamaCare’s enhanced tax credits that includes a sunset period and an income cap for high earners.
The “statement of principles” from centrist Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) represents the only public proposal from either side to address the subsidies since the government shut down more than a month ago.
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Thune ‘optimistic’ shutdown may end this week, eyes spending bill through January
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Monday that he is “optimistic” lawmakers can strike a deal to reopen the government by the end of the week, and he is considering a stopgap spending bill into January or later as the proposed late-November date in the House-passed bill is no longer feasible.
The GOP leader told reporters that while he isn’t “confident” about the shutdown ending, he was more upbeat as talks continued among a bipartisan group of rank-and-fil...
Johnson says funding extension date under discussion as Nov. 21 draws closer
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Republican leaders will meet to discuss whether to extend the stopgap bill to reopen the government past Nov. 21 as time grows short to hammer out funding for the rest of the year.
The Senate has failed 13 times to advance a stopgap measure known as a continuing resolution (CR) that passed the House in September and would fund the government at current levels through Nov. 21. Democrats have said they won’t support the CR until Republicans s...
EPA union: Government shutdown deal must include health care funding
The president of the union representing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers on Monday urged Congress to include health care protections in a bill to reopen the government as the shutdown approaches record length.
“The U.S. government must be fully funded immediately, and that has to include funding for health care," said Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238.
"The very foundation of EPA’s mission is ...
Democrats, GOP look for shutdown off-ramp
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How Democrats, GOP could end shutdown and save face
Voices in both parties say Democrats and Republicans alike are looking for a deal that would allow them to save face while ending a shutdown that’s causing increasing pain to Americans across the country.
The difficulty is finding a sweet spot that reopens the government and allows both sides to walk away telling their bases — with a straight face — that they won.
There is no obvious solution, and it's anyone's guess what the exact compromise will look like. But l...
8 Democrats sit at center of potential deal to end government shutdown this week
At least eight moderate Senate Democrats are meeting in hopes of finding a deal to end the monthlong government shutdown, but sources familiar with the closely held conversations say they will need strong assurances from the GOP before voting to reopen the government.
The eight Democrats, who include Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Jon Ossoff (Ga.), the latter a top Republican target in 2026, will need to feel comfortable with whatever is offered by Senate Majority Leader J...
5 takeaways from Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview
President Trump returned to “60 Minutes” on Sunday for his first sit-down interview with the program and with CBS News since its parent company earlier this year settled a lawsuit with the president.
Correspondent Norah O’Donnell sat down with Trump on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago estate, where there was a passing mention of the contentious history between the president and the network, plus numerous questions on the ongoing government shutdown, foreign policy and som...
Majority of voters blame Trump and GOP for shutdown: Poll
Most voters in a new survey blame either President Trump or Republicans in Congress for the federal shutdown, which has now stretched into its second month.
In an NBC News poll, conducted in late October, 52 percent of voters say Trump and/or the Republican Party is responsible for the federal shutdown, including 25 percent who blame congressional Republicans, 24 percent who blame Trump, and 3 percent who say they blame both, even after they were asked to select between the...