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\n Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he told Democrats he could guarantee a vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies<\/a> by a certain date, adding that \u201cat some point Democrats have to take yes for an answer\u201d to end the government shutdown.\n <\/p>\n \n In an interview with MSNBC\u2019s Ali Vitali, Thune repeated that Republicans are \u201cwilling to have the conversation\u201d about health care but that discussions about Obamacare premium subsidies need \u201cto happen in a separate context.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Remember: <\/strong>Those subsidies, which help Americans pay monthly premiums, are at the center of the shutdown stalemate, with Democrats demanding an extension to them as open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans begins in November.\n <\/p>\n \n The Senate majority leader said he couldn\u2019t guarantee that the subsidies would pass in a vote, but \u201cI can guarantee you that there will be a process and you will get a vote.\u201d With the funds set to expire at the end of the year, however, Democrats have said Republicans have not negotiated and that there has not been a meaningful proposal to extend them.\n <\/p>\n \n In an interview moments later, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did not say if he believed Democrats would be supportive of Thune\u2019s proposal. \u201cI haven\u2019t confirmed that that\u2019s an actual offer that\u2019s been made,\u201d Jeffries told Vitali.\n <\/p>\n \n Thune added in the MSNBC interview that he hoped the shutdown would not \u201clast through Thanksgiving\u201d and that there\u2019s a \u201cpath forward\u201d on these issues.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he told Democrats he could guarantee a vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies by a certain date, adding that \u201cat some point Democrats have to take yes for an answer\u201d to end the government shutdown. In an interview with MSNBC\u2019s Ali Vitali, Thune repeated that Republicans are \u201cwilling to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Live-updates-Government-shutdown-and-Trump-administration-news.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6427,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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