SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski said Thursday reopening the federal government will take a bipartisan agreement, but she drew “a red line in the sand” on health care, warning that some premiums could double next year if Affordable Care Act tax credits are not renewed as part of the package.

“We should be talking,” Budzinski told Capitol News Illinois in an interview. “We want to reopen the government. It's nine days now into a shutdown. Next week is going to be the first week in which a federal worker is going to miss their paycheck. And so I think we owe it to the American people — we owe it to the federal workforce to be here working, to negotiate.”

But as of now, there is no deal in sight. The Senate adjourned for the week after several failed votes on a House-backed package t

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