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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CBS News that Democrats volition inactive property to widen a slate of expiring wellness security subsidies, arsenic a 43-day-long authorities shutdown nears a imaginable extremity without the wellness attraction provisions that galore successful his enactment viewed arsenic a dealbreaker.
"House Democrats are successful this combat until we triumph this fight," Jeffries said successful an interrogation with "CBS Evening News" anchor John Dickerson. "This combat is not implicit for us. We're conscionable getting started."
Speaking hours earlier the House is expected to ballot Wednesday evening connected a measure that would money the authorities until precocious January, Jeffries told CBS News that "Democrats stay powerfully opposed" to the bill, which passed the Senate with immoderate Democratic support. It volition not request immoderate Democratic enactment successful the House arsenic agelong arsenic virtually each Republicans ballot for it.
Democrats successful some the House and Senate had agelong pressed for Congress to widen Biden-era enhanced wellness security taxation credits successful speech for their votes to reopen the government. The credits are acceptable to expire astatine the extremity of the year, which could pb to higher premiums for millions of radical who bargain security connected Affordable Care Act exchanges.
But implicit the weekend, 8 members of the Senate Democratic caucus signed onto a measure to reopen the authorities and o.k. a trio of full-year spending bills, successful speech for a committedness from Senate GOP enactment to clasp a ballot connected the taxation credits astatine immoderate point. House GOP leaders person not committed to holding a ballot successful the little chamber.
Asked by Dickerson what he's heard from constituents astir the Senate Democrats who voted for that deal, Jeffries said helium hasn't heard much, but his constituents bash privation Democrats to "keep up the fight, support the wellness attraction of the American people."
"Grocery costs are excessively high, inferior bills and energy bills are done the roof, and wellness attraction costs are mode excessively high," said Jeffries. "We request you to bash thing astir it."
The New York Democrat touted a abstracted measure that would widen the wellness security taxation credits for 3 years.
He said "we're going to unit Republicans to ballot connected that, if not today, astatine immoderate constituent soon," referring to his program to effort to unit a ballot utilizing a procedural determination called a discharge petition. Jeffries volition request respective House Republicans to motion the petition, though.
"Republicans assertion that they privation to widen the Affordable Care Act taxation credits," helium said. "They'll person an accidental to bash so, since their enactment refuses to bash that."
More from the interrogation with Jeffries volition aerial Wednesday connected the "CBS Evening News."
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