Nearly two weeks and counting, the federal government remains shut down.

Senate Democrats want $1.5 trillion in healthcare spending added to the spending bill the U.S. House passed last month, which Republican leaders strongly oppose. U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. 5th District, told Missourinet the healthcare funding is sorely needed.

“The failure to pass the enhanced tax credits for the ACA will cause all kinds of medical chaos,” Cleaver said. “There will be a large number of Americans who would lose their insurance and a large number of hospitals, particularly in the rural areas, that may not even be able to keep (their) doors open.”

Those Affordable Care Act tax credits expire December 1st, thus the urgency from Democrats to get them renewed. Cleaver also says TSA workers at Ameri

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