Jeffries says handshake deal to address health care is not enough to end shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Friday that a GOP commitment to address ObamaCare subsidies later in the year is not enough to end the government shutdown.
Jeffries said Republicans have tried for more than a decade to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including a repeal effort in President Trump’s first term, leaving Democrats distrustful of any health care deals with GOP leaders that aren’t set in stone with legislation.
"Republicans have zero credibility, zero, on the issue of health care,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
He emphasized that the Democrats' position is that the ACA........





















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