New York’s leaders in Washington are falling about where you would expect when it comes to a pending deal to end the government shutdown.<\/p>\n
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted against advancing the legislation which would fund the government but take no action on soon-to-expire enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, instead punting the subsidy conversation with a promise to take up a vote in December.<\/p>\n
In his floor speech, Schumer worked to tie the shutdown to Republicans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot support the Republican bill that\u2019s on the floor,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cNow that they have failed to do anything to prevent premiums from going up, the anger that Americans feel against Donald Trump and the Republicans is going to get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
But there is also anger among Democrats toward Schumer for not being able to wrangle the eight moderate Senate Democrats who voted with Republicans to move the bill.<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, also from the Empire State, defended Schumer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer have waged a valiant fight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand voted “no” and in a statement she tied her decision to a lack of faith that the December vote will ultimately address the subsidy issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot trust the Republicans to do the right thing, so I don\u2019t believe the vote to restore health care will be successful,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause of this lack of trust, I will not support this deal, which fails to address the needs of 20 million Americans facing skyrocketing health care costs and instead rubber-stamps policies that reward billionaires at the expense of everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
A final vote in the Senate would send the bill to the House of Representatives. Hudson Valley Republican Rep. Mike Lawler on Monday called it a good deal and criticized Democrats for lacking a coherent plan to actually achieve the outcome they have been pushing for in voting against reopening the government in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is reopening after 40-plus days, something that never should have happened,\u201d he told CNN. \u201cThe fact that Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, the two senators from New York voted ‘no’ for the 15th time, do defund SNAP and not pay our troops, Border Patrol agents, and air traffic controllers all because of politics \u2014 it\u2019s fundamentally wrong and I will vote ‘yes’ when this bill comes to the House floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawler, who has introduced a bill to extend the subsidies by one year, encouraged House Speaker Mike Johnson to similarly offer a vote to pass an extension in December.<\/p>\n
Across the aisle, Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Kennedy slammed the deal ahead of potential consideration in the House.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a total betrayal of the American people, it continues an assault on health care in this country,\u201d said Kennedy, who represents Western New York in the 26th Congressional District.<\/p>\n
While Rep. Joe Morelle of the Rochester area acknowledged the positive of a reopened government, he expressed concern about the road forward as it relates to health care.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis won\u2019t do it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a short term patch but I think we still have many, many questions that still need to be answered as we look to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meawhile, North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik, now a candidate for governor, continued to blame Schumer and Democrats for the shutdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it\u2019s [Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program] which is very important for home heating bills, whether it\u2019s our air traffic controllers, we see these delays all over the country. We need to reopen the government and the fact that Democrats are doubling down to leverage the American people, it\u2019s a disgrace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Stefanik is facing Gov. Kathy Hochul who gave the deal a thumbs down on social media Sunday, generating backlash from Stefanik.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnding the shutdown shouldn\u2019t come at the expense of health care for tens of millions of Americans,\u201d Hochul wrote. \u201cThis deal paves the way for devastating premium hikes that will drive up costs for New Yorkers. Count me out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York’s leaders in Washington are falling about where you would expect when it comes to a pending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,116,256,257,858,199,295,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87,115,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-35606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-capital-region","11":"tag-central-ny","12":"tag-congress","13":"tag-hudson-valley","14":"tag-jack-arpey","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-city-news","19":"tag-new-york-state","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-rochester","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}