Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proposed Friday that the Senate pass a one-year extension of the Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies in exchange for reopening the government.<\/p>\n
Republicans were quick to shoot the offer down. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, called it a “nonstarter\u201d and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called it \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schumer is proposing that the addition be attached to a continuing resolution to fund the government that has so far failed to pass 14 times in the Senate and is up for a 15th vote this afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability,\u201d Schumer said on the Senate floor Friday afternoon. \u201c[Senate Majority Leader John] Thune just needs to add a clean one-year extension of the ACA tax credits to the CR so that we can immediately address rising health care costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schumer is also proposing a “bipartisan committee” to negotiate a longer-term deal on the healthcare subsidies.<\/p>\n
This is the first time Democrats have formally proposed a one-year extension, as opposed to an open-ended one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not asking to make any changes to the current law, \u201c Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat from Michigan, added. \u201cIf we vote for this compromise, we could open up the government.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several other Senate Democrats, including Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, Patty Murray from Washington, and John Hickenlooper of Colorado, also spoke on the Senate floor in support of the proposal.<\/p>\n
The House Freedom Caucus, a group of Republican fiscal hawks in Congress, called the offer \u201cabsurd.\u201d They wrote on X that Senate Democrats are \u201cholding the entire country hostage to protect their failing health care scheme and enrich insurance companies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proposed Friday that the Senate pass a one-year extension of the Affordable Care…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-278046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278046","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=278046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}