The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer, Links and House Ministerial Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both New York Democrats, speak with reporters September 29, 2025 in the US Capitol in Washington, DC (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/State Newsroom)
Washington – Democratic and Republican legislators stayed away from each other with a little more than 24 hours on Monday until a closure of the federal government began after a meeting of the White House with President Donald Trump and Congress leaders who wanted to drive the negotiations.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, the spokesman for the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, the chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and the house of house minor, Hakeem Jeffries, came from the White House shortly after 4:30 p.m., which are still anchored in their positions.
Democrats promise to reduce the increasing costs for health care, and the Republicans are pushing for a “clean” Stopgap law to keep the government in mid-November.
Schumer said that he believed that “for the first time the president heard our objections”, but “big differences” remained.
“It is our task as a legislative leader to solve this problem or at least fix the problem, and we have concentrated in particular on the (affordable care law) and its expansion,” said Schumer, a New York Democrat, reporters on the Capitol Hill shortly later.
Vice President JD Vance, flanked by Thune, Johnson and the Office for Management and Household Director Russ Vouhht, told the reporters outside the White House: “We are on the way to a closure.”
“If you want to talk about how the American health policy can be repaired, let us do it. The spokesman would like to do it. The majority leader of the Senate would like to do it. Let us work on it together, but let us work in the context of an open government that offers the American people essential,” said Vance.
The government’s financing is triggered at midnight on Tuesday. If no compromise is achieved, hundreds of thousands of government employees would be VacationWhile many should be necessary to continue working without payment. States Newsroom published A guide Explain what happens.
The healthcare premium increases
Democrats refer the finger to changes in the recent tax and expenditure cuts Law – generally referred to as “a big beautiful bill” – as a reason for increasing health costs.
The law allows improved premium tax credits to expire those who exploit health insurance on the state market for the market at the end of 2025 by Democrats in an earlier law. The Republican legislator also lowered around 1 trillion US dollar in Medicaid Finance in the next decade to support the extended and fresh tax cuts of the law.
“We are fatally serious to discuss the health crisis caused by the Republican, since it is a deadly serious problem for the American people is the greatest reduction in Medicaid in American history, hospitals, nursing homes and community-based health financing that is currently closing,” said Jeffries, also a New York Democrat.
Health insurance companies on the marketplace of the Affordable Care Act have in 29 federal analysis Published on Thursday by US Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat of the US state of Washington.
All applications to enhance the market insurer are available publicly Healthcare.gov.
Schumer also referred to the updation of the Trump administration and the income of the legislators by the GOP legislators, including those for medical research, foreign support and public media, as another tough line for democrats.
“We have made it clear how we are negotiating a cross -party agreement and then unilaterally carried out the president through orbit and the president by pocket notification through pocket notes without submitting input,” said Schumer.
GOP slams ‘hostage better’ when shutting down
Republican leaders accused Democrats of “going hostage” and pointed out $ 50 billion to five years Fund For rural hospitals that were inserted into the massive tax and expenditure pace in the eleventh hour in order to compensate for cuts in health care.
Thune raised the momentary funding law of the GOP in his hand, which the government would keep open until November 21, and said that he did not understand why Democrats “say that this is a big partisan thing”.
“This is something that we do quite routinely,” said Thune of South Dakota about momentary Stopgap financing calculations.
“This is pure and simply as a hostage in the name of the Democrats,” he added.
Johnson said the house “did his job” about two weeks ago when all Republicans and a democrat passed The seven-week Stopgap financing calculation.
“This is the recording and don’t forget it,” said Louisiana’s Republican.
republican failed In order to obtain enough democratic voices in the Senate, which you control with 53 seats to remove the final hurdle of 60 votes to advance the legislation. Two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Rand Paul von Kentucky also voted against the measure.
Jennifer Shutt and Shauneen Miranda contributed to this story.
