Democrats had said they could not support a GOP-led funding extension until Republicans agreed to certain concessions on health care policy, primarily the continuation of pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies that were set to expire by the end of the year.

Republicans countered those demands by falsely claiming that Democrats were trying to force the government to provide full health care benefits to undocumented immigrants.

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