Shutdown Risk Grows as GOP Rebuffs Schumer Health-Care Demands

Republicans are moving forward with a plan to fund the government past an Oct. 1 deadline without making concessions to Democrats demanding health-care policy changes, setting up a standoff that risks a chaotic shutdown.

The gambit to brush off Democrats, whose votes are needed in the Senate to pass the funding legislation, also lowers the chances of a deal to avert a large increase in Obamacare premiums that will affect millions of Americans starting Jan. 1.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has demanded any funding measure address Democratic priorities like the Obamacare premiums, a move that Senate Majority Leader John ...