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\n GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee and has been involved in bipartisan discussions on how to end the shutdown, said Wednesday evening she is more \u201cencouraged\u201d by the direction of talks, adding that the \u201cpieces\u201d of a deal exist, and a solution could \u201ccome together quickly\u201d once the dam breaks.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think that there are, have been enough of the pieces that have been talked through that if, if somebody can just diagram out how it all comes together and present that \u2014 yes, I do believe it\u2019s possible to kind of come together quickly,\u201d she told reporters.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s no great magic in how we get out of this. It\u2019s the same stuff we\u2019ve been talking about for months,\u201d added Murkowski.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s, let\u2019s do all appropriations bills, let\u2019s figure out what the temporary fix is, what we\u2019re going to do with the premium tax credits, you know, maybe, maybe figure out how we can include some health care reforms. And the government is open, and we\u2019ve got a path forward for for finishing up our appropriations bills, so that we don\u2019t put ourselves in this mess again.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Murkowski was clear that any solution would be based around \u201ca path forward on appropriations, good discussions on how we deal with the ACA cliff that we\u2019re facing at the end of the year,\u201d and other potential health care reforms.\n <\/p>\n
\n Asked if including health care subsidies in a deal is realistic, she acknowledged any agreement may have to be multi-part in order to overcome the lack of trust between the two sides.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere may be \u2014 there may be steps. You do this step, demonstrate some good faith. We do this step, it demonstrates a good faith, and then it unlocks something else,\u201d said Murkowski.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee and has been involved in bipartisan discussions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,29430,100016],"class_list":{"0":"post-259832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-hnk","11":"tag-intl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}