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]]>
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