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| Coming up shortly, we expect to hear from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who will be speaking to reporters on day six of the government shutdown. | ||
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| Good morning, and thank you for being with us today. | ||
| We will get to your calls and comments in just a few moments, but we want to get the latest on the shutdown. | ||
| Joining us for that is Samantha Handler, a policy reporter with Punch Bowl News. | ||
| Samantha, thank you for being with us. | ||
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Thank you for having me. | |
| We'll start with the congressional leaders, top congressional leaders. | ||
| They were on the Sunday shows yesterday talking about the shutdown. | ||
| Is anyone talking to each other? | ||
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That doesn't seem clear at this point. | |
| We saw last week Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Chuck Schumer briefly spoke on the floor, but there have not been big meetings between the leaders since they all went to see President Donald Trump, which is not a good sign for this ending anytime soon. | ||
| And what congressional leaders were saying yesterday, what did you hear? | ||
| Is there anything new from the messaging that they have used the previous week? | ||
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I'm really hearing both sides digging into their current positions. | |
| So Senate Republicans and House Speaker Mike Johnson are not looking likely to give in to Democrats' demands on ACA subsidies. | ||
| Democrats, of course, are continuing to say that they will not move forward, as you said, without a deal on that. | ||
| Patty Murray, the Senate Appropriations top Democrat, even told me last week they needed something in writing to move forward. | ||
| They needed some kind of commitment from Republican leadership that they will put a bill on the floor on health care, which is not something Republican leadership is prepared to do. | ||
| And of course, we've been hearing a lot from that congressional leadership. | ||
| What are you hearing from the rank-and-file members? | ||
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Right, rank-and-file members. | |
| I mean, the House, of course, is still out, which is making for this sort of odd feeling in the Capitol, right? | ||
| It's really quiet without House members. | ||
| And we reported over the weekend that leadership was telling House members to House Republicans to start holding town halls and, you know, talking about the Democratic impacts of the shutdown, how basically doubling down on blaming Democrats. | ||
| And rank-and-file senators are, of course, trying to figure out a way out of this. | ||
| We have Senator Mike Rounds, Lisa Murkowski, Gene Shaheen are all kind of trying to working to find some sort of way forward on the ACA subsidies. | ||
| But of course, the Senate is only one part of this, and the House would have to. |