US EditionSchumer offers deal to reopen federal government, with 1-year ACA tax credit extension
- On Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats would vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, adding that "Democrats are offering a very simple compromise".
- As Democrats grew emboldened by sweeping election victories this week, Sen. Gary Peters pushed the proposal internally while Democrats insisted on health care concessions before reopening government.
- The offer would attach the ACA tax-credit extensions to a package of appropriations bills and a short-term spending bill, and Democrats propose a bipartisan committee on health-care affordability.
- Following the offer, Senate Republicans are meeting at the Capitol this afternoon, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune has kept lawmakers for a rare Friday session with possible weekend votes.
- Democrats say they are ready to clear the way to quickly pass the government funding bill, while appropriators finalize text for Republicans' latest offer, shifting talks toward long-term health-care affordability reforms.
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Senate Republicans decline Democratic offer to reopen the government
Senate Republicans reject Democrat offer to extend health care subsidies for a year in order to reopen the government, as a bipartisan impasse over the longest government shutdown in US history continues and nears the 40-day mark.
Senate Republicans Reject Democrats’ Latest Offer to End Shutdown
Senate Democrats pitched a new proposal Friday to end the government shutdown that Republicans immediately rejected, leaving the two sides no closer to resolving the standoff after a week of bipartisan negotiations.
While Washington DC is going through the closure of the longest government in history, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made a new Democratic proposal to secure his party's votes and end the closure. Through a speech made at the Senate plenary, the Democratic leader said that it would only be necessary for Republicans to say "yes." Read more]]>
Senate Republicans rejected Friday's proposal to reduce their demands to end the shutdown, which included a one-year extension of health benefits that are about to expire, thus prolonging the stalemate that has interrupted air travel and delayed the delivery of food aid.The Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies have been the focus of the debate during the 38-day closure, the longest in U.S. history.
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