GOP Offer Seen as Olive Branch in Shutdown Talks

Senate Democrats on Thursday expressed cautious optimism over a possible Republican olive branch to end the federal government shutdown: a guarantee of a future stand-alone vote to renew expiring Obamacare subsidies, the Washington Examiner reported.

Some GOP senators have floated detaching the healthcare vote from the funding bill in order to break the impasse, according to the report.

“We need a lot more than just, ‘We’re going to have this one vote in the Senate.’ But it’s progress,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., according to the Examiner.