Johnson Says GOP Can Talk Health Care Subsidies Later This Month

Congress has three months to negotiate health care subsidies and “certainly we could work on it in the month of October to find some consensus,” House Speaker Mike Johnson tells reporters.

• Johnson says Democrats must vote to reopen the government first
• Republicans can figure out “what reforms there may be necessary to make all that happen,” he adds
• NOTE: Shutdown Is a Battle Over Health Care Costs: Washington Edition

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