Democrats Split After Senate Passes Bill to End Shutdown

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that House Democrats will oppose any bill that leaves out Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits—after seven Senate Democrats and independent Angus King of Maine joined Republican senators to pass a shutdown-ending package 60–40 the day before. The bill now heads to the House, where a simple majority is sufficient to pass it. “House Democrats will strongly oppose any legislation that does not decisively address the Republican health care crisis,” Jeffries said on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” on Tuesday. He said in a Monday press conference that party leaders would sit with “any Republicans anytime, anyplace, anywhere, in order to find a bipartisan path forward,” but that they were “not going to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of the American people.”...