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  1. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will say Friday that Democrats would vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits, multiple sources told Axios.

  2. DeepFuckingKoopa on

    Feels like they should ask for more but I’m not the one negotiating with fascists

  3. Terrible end of shutdown offer. He needs to retire like Nancy. I don’t think Republicans will take it tho.

  4. He wants the gOP to run against healthcare in the 2026 elections. If the republicans were smart, they’d insist on a 2 year extension and take the issue off the table for the midterms.

  5. Ah, so he took a page out of the Republican playbook so they can run on the subsidy issue during the Midterms and it will surely come back up during the ’28 race

  6. Former-Counter-9588 on

    He only said 1 year because he expects Dems to win back the house next year and maybe gain in the senate.

    It’s foolish. It should be a 10 year extension. Maybe even a 5 year extension at minimum.

    Enough playing politics. If it’s about the people, the offer would be more serious and long term.

  7. UncertainAnswer on

    As long as they are extended as part of the agreement (not a bullshit promise to vote on it after) this is fine.

    If they want to kick the can let them. Either they’ll get destroyed over the same issue again in a year or Democrats will be in control to pass them permanently or address the core issue (cost).

  8. Um what about medicaid?

    What kind of horseshit is this? If you’re not even going to hold onto medicaid then you damn well should be extending the ACA more than one stupid year.

  9. I’m confused by the article and the comments here.

    That has always been what the dems were asking for. There has been no change

  10. I don’t understand. Isn’t the damage from subsidies lapsing already done? Rates have already skyrocketed. What would a year fix. I’m legitimately asking someone to explain this to me.

  11. MadScientist3087 on

    Any chance Dems knew it would be immediately rejected and floated it just to further make GOP look bad for not coming to the table?

  12. You mean the offer that Republicans are already rejecting? Could it be they knew that would happen and are continuing to let the country see it is Republicans who are refusing to even work together to do this?

  13. Responsible-Corgi-61 on

    Trump has already taken so many L’s that i doubt his narcissistic ego can handle any more turns against him; I predict that he will DIG IN and make this shut down as long and painful as possible to attempt to get his way. This shut down will be continue until Republicans fully break with him and make a deal with Dems.

  14. JDVances_Couch on

    This would punt the fight to right before next years election. Progressive candidates should seize the opportunity

  15. Zealousideal_Bet9354 on

    Smart move. Democrats have proven to win when healthcare is on the ballot, and this one year extension will make it so.

  16. This is no where near enough.

    The price needs to be trumps tax cuts from both terms.

    And ACA is no longer on a CR…

    Stop kicking the can down the road.

  17. Man, I sure wish we had a President that had read The Art of The Deal. Maybe then they could step in and help resolve this thing.

  18. EyeDrops4Cyclops on

    Why the fuck is this framed in a way that suggests democrats are “charging” the republicans a “price”? I will never understand how fucking basic decency and making sure people don’t have to choose between death and being enslaved to medical debt is a “price” that someone has to pay.

  19. They should have gone back and said, sorry 1-year extension is off the table and increase the duration now that republicans took the L last week.

  20. pillbox_purgatory on

    All this for a single 1 year extension? So this fight will happen again in a year?

    Establishment Dems always disappoint.

  21. So we can endure another shutdown next year??

    Tell you what Chuck – you kick the can down the road but only IF Congress doesn’t get paid and must remain in the Capitol building TOGETHER until a deal is hashed out.

    That would be for future shutdowns – y’all stay at work, unpaid, and don’t leave the building until a deal is made. You can send out for pizza.

  22. ExtensionIcy2104 on

    Should add we will re open the government with the full release of the epstein files…. then get the republicans to impeach trump and his entire cabinet arrested and then make the country normal again

  23. Puppygirlviolence on

    does this “ending the shutdown” imply them voting on the thing that ends trans healthcare?

  24. caseyjosephine on

    Title should be Republicans double down on helping Americans starve to prove they don’t care if they die.

  25. Minute-Plantain on

    The difference is, Schumer said it again with his half moon glasses even lower on his nasal bridge. That means he’s serious!

  26. Why is it the Dems shutting it down? Exhausted with this messaging.

    They’re the *MINORITY* party and don’t have the votes to open it, aren’t filibustering, and can’t even call a session. The majority party could pass a vote today to reopen and even remove healthcare (which is what they’re asking for!), they just know it’s so unpopular they want Dems to vote to do it.

  27. And the repubs said no because they are doing what their dear leader tells them to. Now the repubs own the shutdown

  28. If the republicans wanted to win so bad, why not just say that the democrats wanted a two year plus extension and they talked them down to 1 year. Oh wait it’s because that is more money for them to grift or use for the personal army…

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