Thune offers ACA vote amid shutdown stalemate | JQJO

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he offered Democrats a vote to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies in a bid to end the 16-day government shutdown, but he wouldn’t promise an outcome. The Senate again failed to advance the GOP funding bill, and Thune plans a procedural vote to fund the Department of Defense for a full year to ensure troop pay, with the option to attach other agencies’ bills under regular order. Speaker Mike Johnson echoed that health care results can’t be guaranteed. Thune urged reopening the government and wouldn’t predict an end, hoping it doesn’t reach Thanksgiving.