U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during an event to announce a cope with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to cut back the costs of GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs, within the Oval Office on the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 6, 2025.
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President Donald Trump proposed a compromise on medical health insurance payments, calling on Republicans to send federal payments that may go to insurers under the Reasonably priced Care Act on to Americans to bring an end to the federal government shutdown.
“I’m recommending to Senate Republicans that the Tons of of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Corporations with a purpose to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” he wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday, without providing any details.
The post comes someday after Senate Republicans rejected Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s deal that may have allowed the U.S. government to reopen after a shutdown that began Oct. 1. The shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history.
The plan Democrats recommend on Friday proposed protecting federal ACA subsidies for at the very least one yr, in exchange for dropping their demand that a longer-term extension of Obamacare tax credits be included in a stopgap government funding bill.
Those subsidies, which greater than 20 million Americans use, will expire at the tip of December if Congress doesn’t extend them.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Friday called the Democrats’ proposal a “non-starter.”
The White House didn’t immediately reply to a CNBC request for comment or specifics on how Trump’s proposed direct payment plan would work.
Representatives for Sens. Schumer and Thune didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. The D.C. offices for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Congressional lawmakers have been in a stalemate, unable to search out a compromise to finish the shutdown. Democrats need a funding bill to incorporate health-care subsidies which can be as a result of expire for twenty-four million Americans at yr’s end. Republicans, meanwhile, say Congress must first pass a funding bill without strings attached and permit the federal government to reopen before tackling other issues.
In multiple posts on Saturday, Trump also reiterated his calls for terminating the filibuster, the Senate rule requiring 60 of its 100 members to pass most laws. The GOP holds 53 seats within the Senate. There are 45 Democratic senators, and two independents who caucus with them.
Senate Republicans have pushed back on changing the rule, saying earlier this week they might not support a change. Trump had called for his party to exercise what he called “the Nuclear Option” on the rule.
On Saturday, Trump alleged that he’s “making progress” with Republicans on changing the rule.
“The Democrats are cracking like dogs on the Shutdown because they’re deathly afraid that I’m making progress with the Republicans on TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER! Whether we make a Deal or not, THE REPUBLICANS MUST ‘BLOW UP’ THE FILIBUSTER,” he wrote.
