House Democratic leaders on Tuesday proposed a three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, commonly known as Obamacare, which are set to expire and are at the heart of the fight by Democratic representatives in Congress for a Solution to the government shutdown.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Representative Katherine Clark (D-MA), the House Democratic leader, planned to introduce the legislation as an amendment to the spending agreement passed by the Senate during a Rules Committee meeting Tuesday night, Jeffries said in a press release.

The announcement reiterates what Hakeem Jeffries said at a press conference prior to the Rules Committee meeting, which was posted on YouTube by the House Minority Leader.

“House Republicans: Welcome back from your seven-week taxpayer-paid vacation,” Jeffries told reporters at the Capitol shortly before the Rules Committee meeting. “Now they have the opportunity to take concrete action in one area of ??this health crisis, working with Democrats, before the Rules Committee tonight, to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits.”

The amendment is certain almost to fail, given the Republican majority on the Rules Committee and the Republican Party's long-standing opposition to the ACA, which they have sought to repeat since its inception 15 years ago.

But the goal is to put on record the opposition. of Republican legislation to extend the ACA's enhanced tax credits, which benefit more than 20 million Americans of all political affiliations across the country.

Many Americans face huge increases in premiums and other medical expenses if Congress does not intervene before January 1.