He said the administration would have to do that separately in a later appropriations bill.
If lawmakers can't put the final touches on an omnibus spending bill before funding lapses on April 29, they could pass a short, stopgap measure to keep the government running while negotiators hash out the details. Pelosi had been stressing to Mulvaney Democrats' desire to to see the payments included in the spending bill, according to the reports. "Mulvaney indicated that, while the Trump administration had continued the CSR payments, they had not yet decided whether they would make the May payment", the aide wrote in an email. But a Mulvaney spokesman on Wednesday disputed that account. That is not in an appropriation bill.
Despite this stance, Ryan said that a bill to fund the government was "really close". Insurers would face higher costs, and in many states they could respond by cancelling coverage for the rest of 2017.
The possibility doesn't appear to be hypothetical.
On the other side of the Capitol Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor that Democrats should "take their own advice" about not including "poison pills" in order to reach a "good agreement that both sides can support".
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She used Snapchat to make light of the headline, which read "Pregnant Serena Williams Back in World Number One Spot". Soon after, her Instagram inspired Annie Apple to write a handsome tweet/letter to her son, Giants' Eli Apple.
Democrats warned of dire consequences if Trump carries out his threat to sabotage the ObamaCare market.
"CSR's, we're not doing that", Ryan told reporters after meeting with House Republicans Wednesday morning.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the poorest enrollees into private health plans purchased through the exchanges receive two forms of assistance.
According to the analysis, the government would owe an estimated additional $12.3 billion in tax credits in 2018, if cost-sharing reduction payments end and if insurers choose to continue offering plans in ACA marketplaces. At issue right now is continuing cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers who are subsidizing low-income Obamacare customers. The government would save $10 billion from stopping the payments, resulting in a net increase in federal costs of $2.3 billion. Under the leadership of former Speaker of the House John Boehner in 2014, Republicans sued the Obama administration, claiming it was illegally reimbursing marketplace insurers.
Republicans argued Obama didn't have the authority to dole out those payments without an explicit approval of Congress. A judge concluded the House's claim had legal standing and allowed the case move forward in May of 2016. After Trump was elected, the appeals court now overseeing it allowed the proceedings to be paused while his administration and the House GOP work out their next steps.
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