Top House Dem digs in on Obamacare fight before high-stakes Trump meeting

house The leader of the minority, Hakim Jeffrez, DN.Y. Donald Trump About government financing.

The federal government will enter a partial closure in midnight on Wednesday if Republicans and Democrats do not agree to a deal on the fiscal year 2026 funding priorities, which ends at the end of the day on September 30.

All Democrats in the House of Representatives, with the exception of the Republican plan, rejected almost a direct extension of the financing levels for the year 2025 fiscal year 2025, until November 21, aimed at giving allocations more time for a long -term deal.

Jeffrez criticized the procedure – which is called the continuous decision (CR) – as parties and the Republicans demanded concessions on health care in exchange for democratic support.

Johnson spokesman turned the scenario to Dem leaders with a strong warning against the government’s closure

The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, notes that the Democrats are firmly reservations about their health care demands before a major meeting with President Donald Trump on government financing. (Getty Images)

He indicated during a press conference at the last minute on Monday that the Democrats will reject anything less than a written plan to extend the care suit at reasonable prices (ACA) that was enacted during Covid-19 PandeMic.

Jeffrez said: “No one can trust their word in the field of health care. Are you joking with me? These people are trying to cancel people and resolve them from the law of reasonable prices since 2010. This is 15 years.” “On behalf of the American people, we are supposed to simply take their speech that they are ready to negotiate? The American people know that this will be unreasonable for us.”

Jeffrez also indicated that the alternative CR provided by Democrats will expand these benefits under ACA, known as “Obacare”, permanently.

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

This comes hours before he was the leader of the minority at the Senate Chuck Schumer, Dean. , Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, R does not.

Johnson and Wathun, along with other Republicans in CongressI prompted the Democrats to accept the deal on the table – noting that the financing levels have been almost the same since the time of former President Joe Biden in his position.

“We are ready, we are ready, we are able to find a path from the two parties forward and reach the spending agreement that keeps the government already open, but it meets the needs of the American people in terms of their health, safety and economic well -being regarding reducing the high cost of living, unlike allowing tens of millions of Americans to increase the costs of health care significantly.

“What we will not do is to support the draft law to spend partisan Republicans that continue in the intestine for health care for the American people.”

OBAMACARE benefits that date back to the era of Covid will end at the end of this year without any action by Congress.

Thrne NBC News told “Meet the Press” on Sunday that it would be open to negotiate a deal but is not associated with current government financing talks.

The majority leader of the Senate, John Thun, spoke with journalists near his office in Capitol Hill on September 18, 2025, in Washington. (Maryam Zoheb/AP Photo)

“We can take this conversation, but before we do it, issue the hostage. Bring the American people free of charge, keep the government open, and then let’s have a conversation on these distinct tax credits. I am definitely open to it. I think we are all.”

“I will say … that this specific program is in urgent need of reform. It is fraught with risks, fraud and abuse. So we will have repairs if we take action there, but I think there is a way forward.”

CR has passed by Gop the house earlier this month largely along the party lines.

It is now On the SenateAs there will be at least a lot of Democrats to reach the threshold of 60 votes to move forward in the bill.

Shomer is under tremendous pressure from his left wing after playing a major role in CR’s progress earlier in Republicans in March, which spanned September 30.

This time, however, Jeffrez confirmed that he and Sumer in the “lock step” to break the Republican plan unless a compromise is reached.

Senate minority leader Charles Schumer and the minority leader of the House (Kevin Lietsch/Getty Images)

“We are heading to the meeting to negotiate goodwill about landing on the plane in a way that avoids the closure of the government, but it does not continue the Republican attack on the health care of the American people.”

“Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate, and there is a Republican president. If the government stops, it is because the Republicans want to close the government.”

Meanwhile, Johnson put the position of the Democrats in his appearance on the “Future of Sunday morning”.

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Johnson said: “We have passed a continuous decision, which is a very simple and very simple decision of 24 pages to keep the government open for another seven weeks, so that the allocations can end this process,” Johnson said.

“and [Schumer] He said, ‘Instead, I want to add $ 1.5 trillion of new spending to the Stopgap for seven weeks … We want free health care to illegal foreigners paid by US taxpayers dollars. We want to review the $ 50 billion that we passed by, as the Republicans approved, in our big and beautiful draft law, the tax cuts of the working families, to provide rural hospitals and health care, and a list of other party priorities. He knows that it is abnormal. “