{"id":1056291,"date":"2025-09-29T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056291"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:26:28","slug":"amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Skyrocketing Costs &#038; Potential Government Shutdown, House Republicans are Refusing to Show Up for Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are on the brink of a government shutdown thanks to Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump. Until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/schumer-jeffries-statement-on-trump-finally-coming-to-the-table-for-a-white-house-meeting\">the very last moment<\/a>, Trump and Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/leader-schumer-statement-on-donald-trump-cancelling-meeting-with-democratic-leadership\">refused<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/government-shutdown-deadline-sept-30-trump-republicans-go-alone-rcna231424\">negotiate <\/a>with Democrats. Now, House Republicans won\u2019t even <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1972685326121304327\">show up for work<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>House Democrats are here in D.C., ready to work to avert a shutdown and protect health care for millions of Americans. <\/strong>They\u2019ve put forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/leader-schumer-releases-democratic-plan-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown-and-address-incoming-republican-healthcare-crisis\">commonsense proposals<\/a> to prevent health care costs from skyrocketing, rural hospitals from shutting down, and millions from losing insurance as a result of Republicans\u2019 cruel choice to give tax breaks to billionaires while gutting health care and raising costs on working families. <strong>Meanwhile, House Republicans are sitting at home collecting six-figure, taxpayer-funded salaries and refusing to do their jobs.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reminder: Republicans knowingly caused this health care crisis by passing an extreme, billionaire-first agenda earlier this summer that gutted health care to fund tax breaks for the ultrawealthy. The consequences will be dire if they don\u2019t work with Democrats to stop this crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over 22 million Americans are at risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/22\/republicans-aca-tax-credit-changes\">skyrocketing<\/a> premiums, with an average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/affordable-care-act\/premium-payments-if-enhanced-premium-tax-credits-expire\/\">increase in out-of-pocket costs of 75%<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/61570\">15 million Americans<\/a> will lose health care thanks to Trump\u2019s Billionaire-First Budget Bill.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hospitals across the country are <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiarecorder.com\/2025\/09\/17\/rural-georgia-hospital-plans-to-close-its-labor-and-delivery-unit-in-part-due-to-medicaid-cuts\/\">closing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whsv.com\/2025\/09\/04\/augusta-health-consolidate-clinics-partly-response-big-beautiful-bill\/?utm_source=Spanberger+for+Governor+Press+List&amp;utm_campaign=ba482e5142-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_08_01_40&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-ba482e5142-506626301\">reducing services<\/a> because of Republicans\u2019 Medicaid cuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are on the brink of a government shutdown thanks to Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump. Until the very last moment, Trump and Republicans have refused to negotiate with Democrats. Now, House Republicans won\u2019t even show up for work.&nbsp; House Democrats are here in D.C., ready to work to avert a shutdown and protect health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amid Skyrocketing Costs &amp; Potential Government Shutdown, House Republicans are Refusing to Show Up for Work - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-29T19:26:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-29T19:26:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/\",\"name\":\"Amid Skyrocketing Costs & Potential Government Shutdown, House Republicans are Refusing to Show Up for Work - Democrats\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-29T19:26:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-29T19:26:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/6a79beb4f30710331f5f8ad0cb779d64\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\",\"width\":1101,\"height\":483},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/amid-skyrocketing-costs-potential-government-shutdown-house-republicans-are-refusing-to-show-up-for-work\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Amid Skyrocketing Costs &#038; 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