US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York, speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, October 29, 2025. With the government shutdown now on its 29th day, the standoff in Congress over spending is increasingly piling pain on the public sector, with the largest federal employees' union pressuring Senate Democrats to reopen the government. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has offered Republicans a “compromise” to end the government shutdown.
In a floor speech on Friday, Schumer floated a “clean, one-year extension” of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies to be appended to a stopgap funding bill. “After so many failed votes, it’s clear we need to try something different,” he noted. “What the Senate is doing isn’t working for either party and isn’t working for the American people.”
“Democrats would like to see an end to the shutdown and we want to respect Leader Thune’s desire not to negotiate on ACA until after the government reopens,” Schumer said, flanked by members of the Senate Democratic caucus.
The Democratic leader emphasized that this was “not a negotiation” but “an extension of current law,” since Thune has expressed that the Senate GOP won’t discuss the Obamacare tax credits until after a short-term funding bill is passed.
“Let’s create a bipartisan committee,” Schumer added, “that will continue negotiations after the government reopens on reforms, ahead of next year’s enrollment period, to provide long-term certainty that health care costs will be more affordable.”
“We need Republicans to just say, ‘Yes,’” Schumer concluded.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/us-news/chuck-schumer-floats-compromise-on-obamacare-subsidies-to-end-shutdown/
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