As day 43 of the shutdown begins, Speaker Mike Johnson has ordered representatives back to Capitol Hill, where a House vote on the continuing resolution passed Monday by the Senate could take place as early as this evening.

If it passes and President Donald Trump signs it into law, which he has said he'll do.

The government will be funded through

the end of January when lawmakers will have to go back to the bargaining table to agree on a

fiscal year budget.

Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Wednesday, November 12,

2025. Nobody seems to have gotten

everything they wanted out of the longest shutdown in U.S. history, not the Democrats, not the

Republicans, and definitely not the American people. Was it worth it? Joining me to discuss the

fallout is USA Today Congress reporter, Zach Shermaley. Thanks for joining me, Zach. Thanks so much for having me. As I mentioned, the Democrats didn't get any concessions from their Republican colleagues on Obamacare subsidies, which are still on track to expire at the end of the year. Can you give me a sense of what kinds of premium increases people will have to deal with?

Democrats are characterizing this, Dana, as a looming health care crisis for millions of Americans.

So according to some estimates, as many as 5 million people could be uninsured come next year. And, you know, as many as

22 million Americans could see their premiums skyrocket. This is something that has been

brewing for a long time for the American people after Congress extended some enhanced premium tax credits.

And lawmakers did actually get some version of a concession from Republicans that progressives

don't necessarily say is enough for them.

But what moderate Senate Democrats were able to get from Republicans was a

commitment to a vote in the second week of December on extending these Obamacare subsidies. It's not

entirely clear that there are going to be the votes in Congress to extend

those subsidies. In fact, Congress already voted this week on potentially adding an amendment to

the shutdown deal that would extend these enhanced premium tax credits for one year that vote already failed.

So that's a bit of a bellwether as to what we could see in terms of a vote in the second

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