Re: Government Shutdown, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. says that the Republicans are not negotiating. Remember, the speaker of the House has kept the House out for the last two weeks. We are, for the first time in America ever, because of Donald Trump's attacks on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, on the verge of tens of millions of Americans losing their health care and most of Americans experiencing a significant rise in their health care costs.