Democrats Make Health-Care Demands
The House aims to vote on a short-term stopgap next week to avert a government shutdown, but its fate is far from certain as Democrats dig in on the funding fight.
Democrats are pushing for any stopgap funding patch to include health-care provisions — likely the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits — vowing to oppose a clean continuing resolution.
- “We will not support a partisan spending agreement that continues to rip away health-care from the American people, period, full stop,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters after a meeting with fellow ...