The proposed plan includes a one-year extension of the Obamacare tax credits and a short-term spending bill.
“Democrats have said we must address the health care crisis, but Republicans have repeatedly said they won’t negotiate to lower the health care costs until the government reopens,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “So let’s find a path to honor both positions.”
“We’d like to offer a simple proposal that would reopen the government and extend the ACA premium tax credits simultaneously, and then have the opportunity to start negotiating longer term solutions to health care costs. Let’s do all three.”
The proposal also includes a continuing resolution and a three-bill minibus of full-year spending bills that were a part of prior bipartisan talks. Additionally, the plan includes the creation of a “bipartisan committee to continue negotiations on long-term reforms to address healthcare affordability,” Schumer’s office said.
Senate Republicans are expected to discuss the proposed plan during a conference meeting on Friday afternoon.
I don’t know if they’re caving or just making an offer they know will be refused, so they can keep blaming Republicans for the shutdown.
I agree with Trump and Vance that the Republicans should “nuke” the filibuster, so we can pass legislation that will prevent election fraud before the midterms.
But I don’t know if they can get enough Republicans (damn them!) to go along with it.
“The final vote is uncertain as of this writing, but evidently the votes are there to end the shutdown. Maybe more troubling information will come out in days to come, but at this point it appears that the Democrats have simply caved, and Republicans have not given up anything of importance.”
So they finally did cave, but Trump is still insisting that we need to do away with the filibuster in order to get everything passed in his bill.
So I’m wondering if there are still going to be some kind of roadblocks to his agenda here?
