Trump signals no shutdown compromise with Democrats as senators hold a rare weekend session

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Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping to find a bipartisan resolution that has eluded them as federal workers have gone unpaid, airlines have been forced to cancel flights and SNAP benefits have been delayed for millions of Americans.

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00:00And so I'm glad to see Democrats, after 38 days, back down from the maximalist and frankly

00:08insane position they've held since September.

00:12The Democrat leader's proposal is a non-starter for the Republican majority.

00:17The Democrat leader wants to believe that this is a, quote, simple proposal, that it

00:23is some sort of compromise, but it is not.

00:28Republicans are not about to further burden taxpayers by blindly extending a flawed program.

00:34The Democrats' proposal is just more of the same, masking rising premiums and padding

00:40insurance companies' profits with more taxpayer dollars.

00:45The Democrat leader's proposal is a non-starter.

00:49I know many Republicans stormed out the gate to dismiss this offer, but that's a terrible

00:53mistake.

00:55Our offer is not a new policy.

00:57This is not negotiating in a shutdown, it's simply agreeing to maintain current funding

01:01levels.

01:02Look, if Republicans want to talk about long-term fixes to ACA affordability, Democrats are ready.

01:07We said so yesterday.

01:09But in the meantime, doing nothing is derelict because people will go bankrupt, people will

01:14lose insurance, people will get sicker.

01:17And that's what will happen if this Congress fails to act.

01:19We're going to replace this broken system with something that is actually better for the consumer

01:25to meet the goal of lowering health care costs.

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