The longest government shutdown in history came to an end Wednesday evening, after President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill narrowly approved by the House earlier that day.

Washington can now work to get its operations back up and running — but it will do so without Democrats securing their paramount objective: a concrete path forward to preserve enhanced tax credits for ACA plans set to expire at the end of 2025.

Republicans in the Senate have agreed to vote on the subsidies before they expire at the end of the year. However, that’s not a guarantee that the assistance will be preserved — and there’s little time for regulators and insurance companies to absorb and communicate any changes, or for consumers to change their minds on whether or not to elect into an ACA plan fo

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