Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out a new Democratic counterproposal for ending the government shutdown: attaching a one-year extension of soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies to a spending stopgap that would reopen agencies.
Tell you what, Chuck, we'll extend ACA subsidies in the amount of 50% of any other welfare spending cuts you can find.
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