An ObamaCare deadline has collided with a fight over government funding, as Democrats are signaling they want Republicans to extend the law's expiring premium subsidies before they support any bill to keep the government open.

Without action, enhanced tax credits passed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people afford coverage will expire at the end of the year. Congress has extended the subsidies twice, but now Republicans control the entire government and many are content to let the subsidies expire.

Yet, some in the GOP are showing openness to some type of extension by year's end. But government funding expires on Sept. 30, and Democratic leaders want to leverage the earlier deadline to extract concessions on health care and other issues.

“On this issue, we’re totally united. The Republicans have to come to meet with us in a true bipartisan negotiation to satisfy the American people’s needs on health care or they won’t get our votes, plain and simple,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) told reporters Thursday.

Here's what to know about the fight so far.

Why is this happening now?

If Congress is going to pass any kind of subsidy extension, they don’t technically have to act until the end of the........

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