Republicans and Democrats are looking for a counter on subsidies in Obamacare

Bipartite discussions on reopening, the government began to materialize less than a day in the closure, the Republicans and the Democrats trying to find common ground on the expired Obamacare tax credits.

The federal government entered its first full day of a closure on Wednesday, and so far, none of the two sides of the aisle is ready to complete while the hours passed.

However, in the midst of the third attempt by the Senate Republicans to pass the short -term financing extension of the GOP Chamber, a group of nearly a dozen senators have snuggled on the ground during the first public exhibition of negotiations so far.

“There are glimmer of hope, and I think they are bipartite,” said senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Who was in the group.

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Leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)

The conversations on the ground came while the Republicans demanded that the Democrats gave up and offer the votes to reopen the government, while the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., doubled on his position that the Democrats would not move without a “serious” movement on the premium subsidies of Obamacare.

“Donald Trump and the Republicans put us in a closure because they refuse to protect the health care of the Americans,” said Schumer. “It is clear that the exit of this closure is to sit down and negotiate with the Democrats to fight against the imminent health care crisis which faces tens of millions of American families.”

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., seems willing to slowly deviate from the Democrats of the Senate by a de facto attrition war and plans to bring again and again the bill of the law of the Chamber for a vote.

The Senate will be released Thursday to observe Yom Kippur, but should return Friday and possibly vote in the weekend on continuous resolution (CR) which would reopen the government until November 21 to give legislators more time to finish work on the dozen expenditure invoices necessary to finance the government.

Thune told Fox News Digital that he expected to speak to Schumer “the next day or two”.

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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., is interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox News Channel outside the West Wing of the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)

“He said he is interested in doing so,” said Thune. “I do not know what we are going to get there, but I think there is, I mean, things seem to evolve on their side. We are not going to tell them to” give us – open the government, and we will continue with regular business. “”

Thune and the Senate Republicans argued that the rejection by the Democrats of the GOP CR Senate is hypocritical, given that when the former president Joe Biden was in office, Schumer and his Caucus regularly voted for “clean” extensions – as the current GOP proposal.

But the question of democrats was multifaceted.

Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., Made among the many legislators who held a Confab on the Senate soil, and although he did not disclose all the details of private talks, he said that a major problem for him is to ensure that an “agreement is an agreement”.

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“Everything we accept, because it is not a clean Cr if the president tears it away tomorrow,” he said. “In the past, we voted for Cres CRS, but the president showed that he would resume the money.”

Among the options launched in the group, there was a 10 -day financing extension once launched by Schumer, which he quickly killed earlier this week, or transmitting the republican plan to give the legislators time to negotiate a solution to expired tax credits.

Senator Peter Welch, D-VT., Said that there were not yet high-level discussions, but that any way to follow should be “enforceable”.

“The main thing here is that I feel a real concern among my republican colleagues on what happens to the people they represent if we make the cliff on the Act respecting affordable care,” he said, referring to Obamacare.

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And Senator Mike Rounds, Rs.d., who helped facilitate conversation, said that it would be “big” if the legislators could obtain something before the deadline of November 21 in the GOP bill, but that he and other Republicans still pushed the Democrats to support their legislation.

“It is not as if they should oppose what is in the existing bill,” he said. “It is their hostage, and we simply say to them:” Listen, we have support on the other side to solve the problems that concern you, but it will take time to negotiate them. “”