Washington (AP) – tours in the Capitol have come to a standstill. The house keeps its doors closed, while the Senate is in a rejected plan for reopening the government in a loop of failed voices. President Donald Trump threatens to fire federal workers and reset the payment for the rest.
If the government’s closure enters a second week, there is no recognizable endgame in sight.
“You have to negotiate,” argued Senator Bernie Sanders, who, independent of Vermont, until slow at the Senate. “That’s how it works.”
At least there are no negotiations in public.
The shutdown is switched on, but signs of calm conversations
The Republicans, who have the majority of the majority in the congress, believe that they have the upper hand, since they make democratic demands quickly to finance health insurance subsidies as part of every plan to end the closure.
But the Democrats also dug up and convinced that the Americans are on their side in the fight to prevent the impending price spikes for health care and to accuse Trump for closure.
However, signs of complaints are obvious behind the scenes.
A loosely formed collection of senators, republicans and democrats has been assessed by options for solving the health insurance problem. One, Senator Susan Collins from Maine, offered her own plans.
Two prominent Republicans, MP Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia and Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, said something to be done to stop the health insurance hikes.
And Trump himself signaled that he was open to the negotiation with Democrats about their demands to save subsidies in healthcare. At the beginning of this week, the president said that the talks were already underway because he wants a “great health care” for people to change his clay hours later to say that the government must first be reopened.
Trump wants to conclude a health contract
“Yesterday I spoke to the president with the president about this thing,” said House speaker Mike Johnson about his Monday discussion with Trump. “And yes, he wants to solve problems.”
At its core, the debate about the healthcare system that has been involved in the congress for years and in particular the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, that Trump tried and failed to lift and replace in the White House during his first term.
Congress increased the federal subsidies with which people can acquire private insurance policies for the Affordable Care Act exchange during the Covid 19 pandemic. Federal aid was popular and increased the ACA registration to 24 million people. These extended subsidies will expire at the end of the year.
The Republicans say that the congress can deal with the health insurance issue in the coming months. Democrats are now fighting to solve the problem because people receive information on higher political prices for the up-to-date year.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, the Republican from South Dakota, said that there may be a way forward – as soon as the government is reopened.
“We had always planned to have these discussions,” said Johnson, R-La.
Doubts are high and trust is low
However, the Democrats argue that the Republicans could not address the course of the process for health care this summer when they approved Trump’s signature law into the law, which is generally described as the only great bill.
The Democrats doubt that Johnson keeps the house away from the legislative period and sends the legislators home to work in their districts that Republicans will quickly work again on solving the health problem.
“Ten million of people are about to dramatically increase the costs of health insurance – how is that acceptable in the richest country in the history of the world?” said the democratic leader of the house, Hakeem Jeffries from New York.
“A crisis in healthcare unfolds in front of the eyes of the American people due to the actions taken by the GOP – they are on vacation,” he said.
Missed salary checks for employees and more failed voices
While the federal employee often missed salary checks during the shutdown and the first salary period takes place in the next week, Trump is now threatening the guaranteed repayment. It would be a powerful deviation from what is normal. The white house of the White House under Russian argues that the law is not automatic, and the congress must approved it.
At the same time, Thunes has to deduct more democratic senators to join the Republicans in order not to promote the draft laws listed in the house, which would finance the government without health fix.
In fact, the parties continue to pull apart. Senator Angus King, the independent of Maine, who has voted with the Republicans to finance the government several times, said that he could change his voice and join most democratic senators who comply with better business.
The Senate is expected to try again on Wednesday to advance House Gop’s law, but it is expected to fail again.
Each page has dug up and convinced that they are on the right side of the shutdown fight, also because their internal data show this.
At the weekend, the Senate Democrats were informed about information, which indicates that their messaging in the healthcare system was made by the voters. The memo of the majority of the Senate majority PAC was distributed nationwide to the house democrats and campaigns with a clear guideline on Tuesday.
“It would be a mistake to lose the pressure from the Republicans,” says the memo.
The Republicans stay in their own game book. In a memo from the House GOP campaign, the candidates were asked to concentrate on the economic effects of the closure, including breakdown at the district level of who would be affected by a state closure.
Each page framed the shutdown fight as a forerunner of the intermediate elections in 2026.
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Kevin Freking and Stephen Grove, Associated Press Writers, contributed to this report.
