U.S. President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium speaks during an lawsuit to denote a woody with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to trim the prices of GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs, successful the Oval Office astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., November 6, 2025.
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President Donald Trump projected a compromise connected wellness security payments, calling connected Republicans to nonstop national payments that would spell to insurers nether the Affordable Care Act straight to Americans to bring an extremity to the government shutdown.
"I americium recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars presently being sent to wealth sucking Insurance Companies successful bid to prevention the atrocious Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and person wealth near over," helium wrote successful a Truth Social post connected Saturday, without providing immoderate details.
The station comes 1 time aft Senate Republicans rejected Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's woody that would person allowed the U.S. authorities to reopen aft a shutdown that began Oct. 1. The shutdown is present the longest successful U.S. history.
The program Democrats enactment guardant connected Friday projected protecting national ACA subsidies for astatine slightest 1 year, successful speech for dropping their request that a longer-term hold of Obamacare taxation credits beryllium included successful a stopgap authorities backing bill.
Those subsidies, which much than 20 cardinal Americans use, volition expire astatine the extremity of December if Congress does not widen them.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., connected Friday called the Democrats' connection a "non-starter."
The White House did not instantly respond to a CNBC petition for remark oregon specifics connected however Trump's projected nonstop outgo program would work.
Representatives for Sens. Schumer and Thune did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The D.C. offices for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Congressional lawmakers person been successful a stalemate, incapable to find a compromise to extremity the shutdown. Democrats privation a backing measure to see health-care subsidies that are owed to expire for 24 cardinal Americans astatine year's end. Republicans, meanwhile, accidental Congress indispensable archetypal walk a backing measure without strings attached and let the authorities to reopen earlier tackling different issues.
In the aforesaid post, Trump reiterated his telephone for terminating the filibuster, the Senate regularisation requiring 60 of its 100 members to walk astir legislation. The GOP holds 53 seats successful the Senate. There are 45 Democratic senators, and 2 independents who caucus with them.
Senate Republicans person pushed backmost connected changing the rule, saying they would not enactment a alteration this week arsenic Trump called for his enactment to workout what helium called "the Nuclear Option" connected the rule.
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