(Schumer knows in 2026 Dems will win back control of House so a 1 year extension is as good as keeping it forever. But so do the Rethuglicans. As the longest shutdown in history drags on, 800k gov employees are either furloughed or working without pay and that is after the DOGE junkies fired 250k other gov employees. This plays right into the hands of the free market ghouls who wrote Project 2025 from the neoliberal Heritage Foundation. The manufactured crisis is allowing them to do still more damage to the system of government we have.)
from Common Dreams
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday offered—and Republican leadership rejected—a compromise deal to end the longest federal shutdown in US history, an agreement under which Democrats proposed to vote to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies.
“It’s clear we need to try something different,” Schumer (D-NY) asserted on the Senate floor, noting the 14 failed upper chamber votes on the short-term continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives in September to fund the government through November 21.
“All Republicans have to do is say ‘yes’ to extend current law for one year,” he said. “This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with healthcare affordability, and begins a process of negotiating reforms to the ACA tax credits for the future. Now the ball is in the Republicans’ court. We need Republicans to just say yes.” ...
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