Hawaii’s two House members voted against reopening the federal government, saying the legislation contained no guarantees to prevent insurance premiums from rising for island residents who purchase their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

In a Facebook post before the House voted Wednesday to send a continuing resolution to President Donald Trump to fund the government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, U.S. Rep. Ed Case wrote, “I want to get government reopened, get our federal workers back to work and paid, and get programs like SNAP back under way. But this version cruelly and unnecessarily just plain walks away from the real health care crisis facing 40 million Americans including 25,000 of our own ‘ohana and I can’t support that. This version also h

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