"Republicans have been accusing Democrats of secretly demanding concessions on LGBTQ+ issues to end the shutdown for the past month, despite LGBTQ+ issues not appearing at all in the continuing resolutions that would reopen the government. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is getting called out by the myth-busting website Snopes for saying that Democrats are supposedly demanding funding for LGBTQ+ Balkans."
"The main difference between the Republican and Democratic resolutions is whether certain health care subsidies would run out at the end of this year: the Democrats' resolution kept the health care credits alive, while the Republican resolution let them expire. The Democratic continuing resolution also contains some provisions that would make it more difficult for the president to simply ignore Congress' power of the purse,"
Congress failed to pass funding legislation, causing a government shutdown after neither Senate Democrats nor Senate Republicans secured the 60 votes needed for continuing resolutions. Democratic and Republican continuing resolutions differed mainly on health care subsidies: Democrats preserved credits while Republicans allowed them to expire. The Democratic resolution also added provisions to limit the president's ability to bypass Congress' power of the purse. Republicans shifted blame toward LGBTQ+ people by alleging Democrats demanded LGBTQ+ concessions to end the shutdown, a claim contradicted by the continuing resolutions and flagged as inaccurate by fact-checkers.
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