Steve Scalise: House Republicans Ready to Fund Government, Await Senate Action

Government Funding Negotiations

• 🎯 House Republicans are prepared to fund the government and are awaiting action from the Senate.
• 💡 Speaker Scalise states that negotiations were close to an agreement before the Senate walked away.
• 🗣️ The primary goal is to get the government operational again, with the date it funds until being a negotiable point.

Funding Mechanisms and Priorities

• 🚫 Scalise expresses a desire to move beyond Continuing Resolutions (CRs) and omnibus bills, advocating for individual appropriations bills or packages.
• 🤝 Three appropriation bills were in conference with near-universal agreement, and another three were ready to go.
• 🏛️ The proposed method involves appropriators negotiating with leadership, followed by membership votes.

Healthcare Policy Disagreements

• 🏥 Scalise criticizes the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for its unaffordability, citing 80% cost increases for families.
• 📉 He claims Democrats removed a provision from a CSR that would have lowered premiums by 12%.
• 🏥 The focus, according to Scalise, should be on lowering premiums with common-sense reforms rather than moving towards a single-payer system.