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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made a masterful play with his offer to Republicans to end the shutdown, analyst Jason Johnson told MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Friday’s edition of “The Beat.”The offer includes one year of extending Affordable Care Act subsidies and a bipartisan commission to study longer-term health care reforms, in exchange for passing the GOP resolution to reopen the government and all the other mini-funding bills on the table. Republicans have immediately rejected this proposal but in doing so, they just fell into a trap, Johnson argued.”Democrats are telling the government and, really, the public, the new offer is if you’ll just do a year of health care and we can deal with the debate later, we can reopen everything,” said Melber. “Your view? I mean, from a messaging standpoint, as cold as that may sound, it’s a brilliant move by Chuck Schumer, and I don’t think anyone has uttered that sentence in months,” said Johnson.”I mean, this puts this squarely on the shoulders of the Republican Party, that they’re not willing to reopen the government just to fund health care for a year,” Johnson continued. “It’s literally kicking the can down the road until the midterm elections. But I think the deeper issue is this, this kind of economic disruption isn’t going to be magically solved, even if the government were to reopen next week. You’ve got people who are behind in bills, you’ve got people who are going to start getting eviction notices. You’ve got people who can’t pay tuition.”The bottom line, he added, is that “this is a crisis in the making and a crisis that’s been ongoing by the Republican Party. The Democrats have a better idea, they have a better position, and Trump is leading his party to ruin.” YouTube www. youtube. com.