House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Democrats are involved in no talks with the Trump administration about ending the shutdown, rebuffing President Trump’s claims that bipartisan health care negotiations are underway.
“I do not know of any Democrats who have spoken to President Trump or members of his administration on this issue of reopening the government, enacting a bipartisan spending agreement, and addressing the Republican health care...
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Trump signals openness to deal with Democrats on health care
President Trump on Monday indicated he was willing to making a deal with Democrats on health care, an issue that has been at the center of the ongoing government shutdown.
"We have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things. And I'm talking about good things with regard to health care," Trump said in the Oval Office.
Trump declined to say whether he was meeting with Democratic leaders.
Conservative House Republican to GOP: Don’t go ‘wobbly’ on ObamaCare
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told his party to not go “wobbly” on ObamaCare amid a push from Democrats on health care in the ongoing government shutdown.
“I’ve been in Congress since 2019 and have waited six years for my party to have an opportunity to go on the offense on healthcare—and win,” Roy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Sunday titled “This Is No Time to Go Wobbly on ObamaCare.”
“Should Congress extend enhanced subsidies for ObamaCare tha...
Conservative House Republican to GOP: Don’t go ‘wobbly’ on ObamaCare
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told his party to not go “wobbly” on ObamaCare amid a push from Democrats on health care in the ongoing government shutdown.
“I’ve been in Congress since 2019 and have waited six years for my party to have an opportunity to go on the offense on healthcare—and win,” Roy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Sunday titled “This Is No Time to Go Wobbly on ObamaCare.”
“Should Congress extend enhanced subsidies for ObamaCare tha...
Jeffries challenges Johnson to prime-time debate about shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday challenged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a debate about the government shutdown on the floor of the lower chamber.
The request for a prime-time, nationally televised debate comes as the government shutdown approaches a full week, with each side in Congress blaming the other.
“Democrats have been clear and consistent in our position,” the New York Democrat said in a letter to Johnson. “The country needs imm...
70 percent of voters oppose government shutdown: Poll
More than two-thirds of Americans oppose the government shutdown as it stretches into its sixth day, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday.
The poll found 70 percent of respondents opposed the shutdown while 30 percent said they supported it. More respondents, 53 percent, blamed Republicans for the shutdown over those who blamed Democrats, 47 percent.
While the poll found the shutdown hurt Republicans over Democrats, that didn’t mean respo...
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...
Johnson: ACA subsidy deadline an ‘eternity’ away
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued Monday the end-of-year deadline to extend subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act is an “eternity” away.
“We have effectively three months to negotiate. In the White House and in the halls of Congress, that's like an eternity,” Johnson told MSNBC’s Ali Vitali.
The subsidies, which were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic and extended through the end of this year by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, expire at th...