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\n Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that Democrats would agree to end the shutdown in exchange for one more year of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies \u2013 an attempt to further pressure the GOP to make a deal.\n <\/p>\n
\n Schumer\u2019s offer to Republicans also includes a stopgap bill and three full-year funding bills, as first reported by CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cDemocrats are offering a very simple compromise,\u201d Schumer said, with dozens of Senate Democrats sitting beside him on the floor. \u201cNow, the ball is in the Republicans\u2019 court. We need Republicans to just say yes.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n There is little expectation that Republicans will take their offer, however, given fierce GOP resistance to extending the health care subsidies with no reforms. Instead, it\u2019s an attempt to showcase Democratic unity and attempt to put more pressure on Republicans heading into the weekend.\n <\/p>\n
\n And because Republicans have said they will not negotiate on health care until the government reopens, Democrats said they are specifically calling for an extension of the current subsidies \u2014 rather than new policy.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat\u2019s not a negotiation. It\u2019s an extension of current law,\u201d Schumer said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019re just asking to keep the credits in place for one year,\u201d added Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, a retiring centrist who has been involved in the talks.\n <\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s a show of unity for Democrats, many of whom have been privately meeting with Republicans about a path forward \u2013 fueling speculation among the GOP that those centrists would fold. But as several made clear on the floor on Friday, they aren\u2019t willing to reopen the government without a real solution on the subsidies.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is our path forward. This is how we reopen the government,\u201d Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin said on the floor.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that Democrats would agree to end the shutdown in exchange for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-363027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115510504121907744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}