« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies  (Read 205 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mystery-ak

  • Owner
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 408,566
Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« on: November 07, 2025, 03:28:40 pm »
Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
Schumer offers counter-proposal to GOP plan to reopen the government, asks Republicans to 'just say yes'
By Alex Miller Fox News
Published November 7, 2025 2:50pm EST

Senate Democrats unveiled their alternative to Republicans' plan to reopen the government that would see an extension to expiring Obamacare credits for one year, asking that Republicans just say "yes."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced the plan in dramatic fashion on the Senate floor Friday afternoon with a backdrop of the Senate Democratic caucus in a bid to show a tangible version of the newfound unity among Democrats since their Election Day sweep earlier this week.

Schumer argued that after 14 failed votes on the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), "It's clear we need to try something different."

He offered to attach a one-year extension to the expiring Obamacare subsidies and to create a bipartisan committee that could negotiate further on how to deal with the subsidies after the government reopened, a clear nod to the GOP's position that negotiations won't happen until the government is reopened.

"Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes healthcare affordability," Schumer said. "Leader Thune just needs to add a clean, one-year extension of the [Obamacare] tax credits to the CR so that we can immediately address rising healthcare costs. That's not a negotiation. It's an extension of current law, something we do all the time around here."

"Now the ball is in the Republicans' court," he continued. "We need Republicans to just say ‘yes.’"

Whether Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans will accept the offer remains in the air. Republicans are set to meet Friday afternoon and are expected to discuss the Democrats' olive branch.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-dems-unveil-alternative-shutdown-plan-ask-1-year-extension-obamacare-subsidies
Logged
Democrat Party...the Party of Infanticide

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:34

Smokin Joe: Stupid people vote. If you have enough of them, you don’t need to steal an election

Offline andy58-in-nh

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,819
  • Gender: Male
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2025, 03:40:28 pm »
I think the Dems are now betting (likely based upon the recent election results) that they will win back the House and Senate next year and then... Hell will follow with them (to get all Book of Revelations on you).

In that respect, Schumer's offer is not so much an "olive branch" as a Devil's bargain.

Is it worth the risk?
Logged
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people."    -Calvin Coolidge

Offline mystery-ak

  • Owner
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 408,566
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2025, 03:43:31 pm »
Didn't the Rebubs offer this last week and the Dems refused?...or am I thinking of something else.. :smokin:
Logged
Democrat Party...the Party of Infanticide

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:34

Smokin Joe: Stupid people vote. If you have enough of them, you don’t need to steal an election

Offline andy58-in-nh

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,819
  • Gender: Male
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2025, 04:11:41 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on November 07, 2025, 03:43:31 pm
Didn't the Repubs offer this last week and the Dems refused?...or am I thinking of something else.. :smokin:
Great question.

I wonder whether Schumer's offer would restore a provision that the GOP had removed from the existing law. This provision included all qualified non-citizens - people who were admitted to the U.S. as "refugees" or "asylees" (an intentionally broad definition that effectively included all illegal aliens).

I expect we will find out shortly.
Logged
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people."    -Calvin Coolidge

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 64,395
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2025, 04:15:03 pm »
Hang the fact that one of the factors that most contributed to health care being difficult to afford is the Government pumping money into that sector and mandating insurance that was required to provide services the patient might never need.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline Bigun

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 36,093
  • Gender: Male
  • Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God
    • The FairTax Plan
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2025, 04:21:51 pm »
Tell the Democrats Commies to go F themselves!
Logged
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Offline Hoodat

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 36,449
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2025, 04:23:58 pm »
HELL NO!
Logged
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."     -Ayn Rand-

Offline Hoodat

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 36,449
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2025, 04:25:47 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on November 07, 2025, 03:28:40 pm
Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies .  .  .

.  .  . so that we can replay this drama right before the mid-term elections.
Logged
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."     -Ayn Rand-

Offline mystery-ak

  • Owner
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 408,566
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2025, 05:07:43 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on November 07, 2025, 04:25:47 pm
.  .  . so that we can replay this drama right before the mid-term elections.

 :bingo: Government Shutdown PT2
Logged
Democrat Party...the Party of Infanticide

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:34

Smokin Joe: Stupid people vote. If you have enough of them, you don’t need to steal an election

Offline DB

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,991
Re: Schumer, Dems unveil alternative shutdown plan, ask for 1-year extension to Obamacare subsidies
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2025, 05:48:36 pm »
Reward band behavior, get more of it.

Take a stand and let the chips fall where they may.
Logged
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. --Voltaire
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »