Democrats block GOP-led government funding bill, shutdown 11 days out

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00:00The House of Representatives approved and the Senate quickly rejected a seven-week extension of government funding.

00:07We are now 11 days out from a government shutdown, and there are no viable options on the table.

00:14The Republican-led funding bill was what's called a Clean Continuing Resolution, or CR, so it's a copy and paste of the current budget.

00:23In both the House and Senate, the votes were largely along party lines.

00:26Republicans say this is the best way to give Congress a chance to make a funding deal for all of fiscal year 2026.

00:33And so instead of working with Republicans to fund the government through a clean, nonpartisan, continuing resolution,

00:41so that we can get back to bipartisan negotiations on appropriations,

00:47Democrats are yielding to the desires of their rabidly leftist base

00:51and are attempting to hold government funding hostage to a long list of partisan demands.

00:57Senate Democrats introduced their own proposal, which included measures to extend Obamacare tax credits

01:03that help low-income Americans pay their insurance premiums,

01:06reverse Medicaid cuts Republicans passed in July,

01:09and prohibit the White House from blocking funding that's been approved by Congress.

01:13Republicans can vote to undo the destruction Donald Trump has inflicted on American health care

01:19and instead work on a bipartisan bill, the only bipartisan bill.

01:25So the big question is, if and when the government shuts down,

01:28who will the American people blame, Republicans or Democrats?

01:32A new poll from the progressive polling firm Data for Progress reveals

01:3559% of voters would blame President Trump and congressional Republicans,

01:40while 34% would blame congressional Democrats.

01:43In addition, 72% of voters support extending the Obamacare tax subsidies

01:47and 67% support restoring Medicaid.

01:50So with that in mind, Democrats are taking a stand in telling Republicans

01:54either include those measures or we'll vote against government funding.

01:57I don't want the government to shut down.

01:59I think that would be terrible for the American people.

02:01But the instructions that Republicans were given from the administration

02:04is don't work with the Democrats, don't talk to the Democrats,

02:06don't make any deal with the Democrats.

02:08And so, look, I hope it doesn't happen.

02:10I hope we can make some sort of deal.

02:12I hope we can save people's health insurance.

02:14You're feeling confident right now voting against this

02:17that the American people are going to blame Republicans if there's a shutdown?

02:20I think one thing is, this is about one thing.

02:22This is about the cost of health care and helping people out.

02:25And I think we're going to make it very clear, as we did today,

02:28this is a very easy thing to do,

02:30which is to help get people's health care costs down.

02:32So if the premiums came in, you would see yourself potentially voting yes?

02:36That's what we're expecting here,

02:38from the step up and do something on the premiums.

02:40And if they do that and help people out with premium costs,

02:42I think you're going to have a lot of good conversations.

02:43It's important to remember that everything Congress is debating right now is temporary.

02:48They need to come up with a permanent solution for funding for all of fiscal year 2026.

02:53And if they do that by the books,

02:55they need to pass 12 separate appropriations bills.

02:59I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Arrow News.

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