Shutdown jockeying over health care is intensifying, with Republicans showing some cracks in their unity and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) insisting Democrats will only agree to a permanent extension of enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.

President Trump and Republicans have sought to raise the pressure on Democrats to reopen the government by threatening mass firings of federal workers and withholding their back pay, but the GOP also is sending signals that Democratic attacks on health care are making them worry.

Some Republican allies of Trump have been warning for months about the political consequences of failing to extend the enhanced subsidies, and Trump on Monday evening at the White House expressed an openness to working out an agreement on health care that could end the shutdown.

Trump later seemed to backtrack, writing on his Truth Social platform that no deal would be done until Democrats vote to fund the government — which they say they won’t do without a deal on a permanent extension.

Jeffries on Tuesday outright rejected the idea of a one-year extension, a bipartisan proposal being pushed by Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) and other Republicans seen as vulnerable in next year’s midterm elections.

Jeffries said a one-year extension is a “nonstarter” that won’t get Democratic support.

“To think that Democrats are going to go along with a one-year extension from a group of people — meaning the Republicans — who just permanently extended massive tax breaks........

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