Democrats are floating another demand to end the federal shutdown — forcing the Trump administration to rehire thousands of nonessential federal workers it has laid off, Politico reported Wednesday.
The reductions in force, or RIFs, affecting up to 10,000 federal workers were initiated in response to the shutdown over Democrat demands to roll back $1.6 trillion in Medicaid and other healthcare reforms included in the big, beautiful bill that Republicans passed months ago, which also provided free emergency care for illegal immigrants.
Democrats are also demanding that Republicans address the expiring Obamacare subsidies — which don’t lapse until Dec. 31 — as another condition to end the shutdown.
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