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Edward Helmore

Marjorie Taylor Greene open to healthcare deal with Democrats amid shutdown

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgie, during a news conference outside the US Capitol on 3 September 2025. Photograph: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has indicated she is willing to negotiate with Democrats over healthcare insurance costs – the central political issue that has kept the US government shut down since 1 October.

Indicating that she is willing to stand against her party on the issue, Greene said Monday night in a post on the social platform X that she’s “absolutely disgusted” insurance premiums could double if a system of tax credits dating back to Barack Obama’s presidency is allowed to expire at the end of the year.

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