Democrats Tout Stopgap to Keep Health Subsidies, Block Clawbacks

Expiring health-care subsidies would be permanently extended, the Trump administration would be forced to spend money it’s blocked, and federal agencies would be funded through Oct. 31 under a long-shot bicameral spending proposal by Democrats.

Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the top Democratic appropriators, released a continuing resolution Wednesday to fund the government beyond the Sept. 30 deadline, giving members of their party an alternative to a GOP funding plan (H.R. 5371).

The Democratic stopgap doesn’t mitigate the risk of an Oct. 1 shutdown, as the two parties pursue different plans. House Republicans released a continuing ...