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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts) Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:57 AM Sunday

Democratic and Republican leaders dig in on health care fight as shutdown drags on

Source: NBC News

Nov. 9, 2025, 9:43 AM EST / Updated Nov. 9, 2025, 10:58 AM EST

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that Democrats would not be willing to compromise on their demands to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire at the end of this year.

Republicans are “not acting in good faith as it relates to dealing with a health care crisis that they’re visiting on the American people,” he told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an exclusive interview.

Asked whether he believed the shutdown would end by Thanksgiving, Jeffries told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, “I hope so.”

“[President] Donald Trump needs to get off the golf course and get back to the negotiating table. He spent more time golfing over the last several weeks than he has talking to Democrats who represent half the country as part of an effort to find a bipartisan path forward,” the House minority leader added.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jeffries-lankford-shutdown-aca-healthcare-aca-rcna242770

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Democratic and Republican leaders dig in on health care fight as shutdown drags on (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP

Many are witnessing how evil the GQPs are...... Lovie777 Sunday #1

And that's what needs to happen. moreland01 Sunday #3

Aparently, they assume that #rump's re-election is a sign that lack of empathy is a winning platform William Seger Sunday #2

MSNBC is reporting that there is a group of Dems in Angus King's office talking about caving to the GOP. SunSeeker Sunday #4

Better f*cking NOT happen!!! NotHardly Sunday #5

You can't see it until you open up the government. twodogsbarking Sunday #6

Lovie777

(21,134 posts)

1. Many are witnessing how evil the GQPs are......

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 12:05 PM

Sunday

MFs want states that has paid out snap to cough up the money and pay the government back. Just pure evil.

moreland01

(854 posts)

3. And that's what needs to happen.

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 12:29 PM

Sunday

A speedy negotiation and resolution would have prevented Americans from understanding what it really means to have republicans in charge of the government.