From the Washington Examiner: Senate Democrats aren’t keen on an offer being weighed by GOP leadership that could end the shutdown. However, some see it as “progress” on a log jam that on Thursday stretched into its ninth day.
The possible GOP olive branch would be an assurance on a future stand-alone vote to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies that are at the center of Democrats’ demands to reopen the government.
“We need a lot more than just, ‘we’re going to have one vote in the Senate.’ But it’s progress,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said.
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said the notion of an offer “helps that [Republicans are] actually talking and thinking about things, [and] they don’t think they could just ram this through and run us over.”
Bloomberg reporter Steven Dennis quoted Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as pouring cold water on the idea, saying, “It doesn’t do anything to make sure we get health care done,” when asked about a guaranteed Senate vote on extending ACA subsidies after government reopens.
“It doesn’t do anything to make sure we get health care done,” Schumer said of a guaranteed Senate vote on extending ACA subsidies after govt reopens, in a brief hallway interview. “Where’s Johnson?” he asked in a reference to the speaker. https://t.co/7zXuYUFk4s
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 9, 2025
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