Top House DeM enters Obamacare's fight before the high -risk Trump meeting

The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., has indicated that the Democrats are not moving their key demands before a high -risk meeting with President Donald Trump on government financing.

The Federal Government will enter a partial closure at midnight on Wednesday if the Republicans and Democrats do not reach an agreement on financing priorities for the fiscal year (fiscal year) 2026, which ends at the end of September 30.

All but a Democrat of the House of Representatives rejected the Plan of the Republicans for approximately direct extension of the Fiscal Year 2025, until November 21, with the aim of giving the appropriators more time for a long -term agreement.

Jeffries criticized the measure, called continuous resolution (CR), as a partisan and has demanded that Republicans make concessions on medical care in exchange for democratic support.

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It was indicated during a last minute press conference on Monday that Democrats would reject anything less than a written plan to extend the subsidies of the Health Care Law at low price (ACA) promulgated during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“No one can trust their word about medical care. Are you joking? These people have been trying to repeal and displace people of the Health Care Law at a low price since 2010. That is 15 years,” Jeffries said. “And in the name of the American people, we are supposed to simply take their word that they are willing to negotiate? The American people know that it would be unreasonable for us.”

Jeffries also pointed out that an alternative CR offered by the Democrats would expand those subsidies under the ACA, colloquially known as “Obamacare”, permanently.

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The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., speaks during a press conference at Capitol, in Washington, on March 6, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/Ap Photo)

Arrived hours before he, the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of La-La., And the leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., will meet with Trump to discuss the government's funds at 3 pm on Monday.

Johnson and Thune, together with other Republicans in Congress, have been pressing the Democrats to accept the agreement on the table, pointing out that the financing levels have remained approximately the same since the time of former President Joe Biden in office.

“We are ready, we are willing, we can find a bipartisan path to follow and reach an expense agreement that really keeps the open government, but satisfies the needs of the US people in terms of their health, their safety and their economic well -being related to the reduction of high life costs, instead of allowing the dozens of millions of Americans to experience dramatically the health care,” the heads told reporters.

“What we will not do is support a party of partisan republican spending law that continues to destroy the medical care of the American people.”

Obamacare subsidies of the Covid-era must expire at the end of this year without any action of the Congress.

Thune told “Meet The Press” of NBC News on Sunday that he would be open to negotiating an agreement but not matched with the current government financing conversations.

The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., speaks with journalists near his office in Capitol Hill on September 18, 2025 in Washington. (Photo by Mariam Zuhaib/AP)

“We can have that conversation, but before doing so, free the hostage. Release the American people, keep the government open and then have a conversation about those premium tax credits. I am certainly open to that. I think we are all,” he said.

“I will say … that particular program desperately needs a reform. It is full of waste, fraud and abuse. So we will have reforms if we take measures there, but I think it is potentially a path to follow.”

The CR led by the Republican party spent the house earlier this month largely in the party lines.

It is now in the Senate, where at least several Democrats will be needed to reach the threshold of 60 votes to proceed with the bill.

Schumer is under a tremendous pressure for his left flank after playing a key role in the advance of the previous Republicans in March, which extended until September 30.

This time, however, Jeffries said that he and Schumer are in “blocking step” to break the Republican plan unless a commitment is reached.

The leader of the Senate Minor (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

He said about his next sitting with Trump: “We go to the meeting to have a good faith negotiation on the landing of the plane in a way that avoids the closure of the government but does not continue the republican assault on the medical care of the American people.”

“Republicans control the camera and the Senate, and there is a republican president. If the government closes, it is because Republicans want to close the government,” Jeffries said at another time.

Johnson, meanwhile, hit the position of the Democrats in an appearance in “Sunday Morning Futures.”

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“We approve a continuous resolution, a continuous resolution of 24 pages simple, very clean and 24 pages to keep the government open for seven more weeks, so that appropriators can finish that process,” said Johnson.

“AND [Schumer] He said: 'No. Instead, I want to add $ 1.5 billion in new expenses to a seven -week Stopgap bill … We want to restore free medical care to illegal foreigners paid for US taxpayers dollars. We want to recover the $ 50 billion that we approved, the Republicans approved, in our great and beautiful bill, the tax cuts of working families, to provide rural hospitals and medical care, and a long list of other partisan priorities. He knows that he is not a non -accessory. “