The House on Wednesday is set to vote on legislation that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, as Democrats aggressively block access to health care. health care.
The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, instructed the lawmakers to return to Washington after hiding in a consecutive session for more than 50 days.
On Monday, a Spinter group of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to advance legislation that would fund the federal government through the end of January, without ending tax credits. The move sparked a fierce backlash among Democrats, many of whom called the plan a betrayal. Influential progressive groups are still calling for Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, to resign.
All Republicans support the passage of the measure, except Rand Paul of Kentucky, along with eight moderate members of the Democratic Caucus, some of whom have recently been elected, or are serving their last terms of office.
The expected house vote, on day 42 of the shutdown, comes as thousands of FEDERAL workers and airlines warn travelers of continued disruption.
On Tuesday night, the House committee voted 8-4 along party lines to advance the Senate package, setting the stage for it to go to the House on Wednesday.
At the start of the hearing, the main Democrat panel, Jim McGovern, welcomed the Republicans back to Washington, declaring their failure to shut down.
“Where are you from?” He asked, during his opening remarks adding later: “The quiet of the Republicans stopped their jobs. They lost.”
Virginia Foxx, the chair of the committee, blamed the democrats for being restrained, and pointed out that they are walking that they will not continue until ensuring that they will not continue until the inspection of the enhanced recovery of healing substances.
While they didn’t get the concession, the senators who broke the Democratic caucus claimed credit for getting a Republican bottle in the December midterms on an increase in tax credits.
When the subsidies end, millions of Americans will see SHORT REEDS on their healthcare premiums or lose their market coverage.
The government’s short-term funding will extend government funding at current levels through January 2026 with programs from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the USDA and FDA, and FLA, and FLA, and LELEDLIVE APRICT SCRICE OPERNATS. The continuing resolution also includes language to halt mass firings and restore layoffs during the shutdown through the end of January — and guarantee further reductions in unpaid workers.
Speaking Tuesday at a press conference on Capitol Hill, Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, said it was his “strong expectation” that House Democrats would vote against the proposal. He joined a group of Democratic lawmakers to veto an amendment that would have extended affordable care tax credits for three years. The proposal was rejected by the Republican-Controlled House Standing Committee on Tuesday night.
“Because of the Republican refusal to expand the affordable tax credits to the care tax, in the middle of a cost crisis that is in the entire country, everything is going nowhere,” said Jeffries.
With a 219-member member in full attendance, Johnson can only lose two votes on the bill, and Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie is likely to vote no. But Republican leaders expressed hope that the legislation would pass Wednesday, and be sent to Trump for his signature.
Speaking to a crowd of members of Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, Veterans Day, Trump Spremateted Johnson, calling the Senate Bill a “great victory”.
“We are opening up our country,” he added. “If it’s never closed.”