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'I Don't Have Any Strategy': Speaker Johnson Still Backs GOP's Clean CR as Shutdown Drags Into 3rd Week
Speaker Mike Johnson calls Obamacare subsidies a 'boondoggle' and blames Democrats for the shutdown impasse as the government closure reaches two weeks.
- Calling the expiring Obamacare subsidies a `boondoggle`, Johnson criticized Democrats' $1.5 trillion proposal on October 13, 2025, as the shutdown nears two weeks.
- Earlier this month the shutdown began on Oct. 1 when Democrats said they won’t support a short-term GOP funding bill without extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, while the Senate needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
- The subsidy caps premiums at 8.5%, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen warned enrollees face premium increases while the Pentagon will use $8 billion to pay troops on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025.
- With votes canceled for a third week, OMB is working to pay federal law-enforcement officers amid the shutdown, and Jeffries criticized GOP tactics.
- Johnson warned the shutdown is barreling toward one of the longest in history, and GOP leaders remain reluctant to use the Senate's filibuster 'nuclear option,' Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said.
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No end in sight to government shutdown as House speaker refuses to negotiate
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House Speaker Slams ACA Subsidy ‘Boondoggle,’ Blames Dems
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday that the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies at the heart of the impasse over the partial government shutdown are a "boondoggle" and that Democrats have only themselves to blame. Johnson also said the subsidy issue cannot be included in any stopgap funding measure to end the shutdown, which is now in its 13th day. "The COVID-era Obamacare subsidy that they're all talking about is supposedly the i…
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