From PBS NewsHour.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday said that he may support a future vote on health care subsidies in exchange for Democratic votes to reopen the federal government.

“I think health care is certainly something that we are anxious to talk about as well,” Thune told PBS News’ Amna Nawaz. “And if giving them a potential vote on something in the future is a way for them to be able to go to their people to say this is what we got in exchange, then maybe that’s what helps open up the government."

Democrats and Republicans have been in a standoff to reopen the government since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.

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