"The intrigue: It's not just the members who spoke up on the call who are questioning their party's refusal to even come to the negotiating table with Democrats. "I do think we should be negotiating the ACA tax credits and have that compromise to put in the Approps bills," Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a retiring centrist, told Axios. "We don't need [it] for the CR, but if we all negotiate in good faith within the Approps process, we may break the ice jam.""
"State of play: The House is on track to work one of its lightest non-election years in decades, and has effectively removed itself from the conversation around reopening the government. Johnson has maintained that the House "has done its job" already by passing a clean stopgap government funding measure, and said he'll only move to bring lawmakers back once the Senate passes the continuing resolution."
Several House Republicans have raised objections to Speaker Johnson's decision to keep the House on recess during the government shutdown, pointing to lost legislative days and missed votes since Sept. 19. Some lawmakers, including Reps. Crenshaw, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kevin Kiley, and Rep. Don Bacon, urged negotiating ACA tax credits within appropriations to break the impasse. Other Republicans, including members of the Freedom Caucus, defended Johnson's approach and said most House Republicans support staying out. Johnson says the House passed a clean stopgap and will only reconvene after the Senate passes a continuing resolution.
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