(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn says Senate Democrats need to drop their objections to the bill he and other House Republicans approved in mid-September — so the federal government doesn’t shut down October 1st.

That includes two-thousand Iowa National Guard soldiers who are currently deployed in the Middle East.

Nunn says he’ll refuse to accept his congressional pay during a shutdown, if there is one. Senate Democrats have been pressing to add an extension of the federal subsidies for insurance policies purchased on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Nunn says it’s an issue congress should consider later.

Iowa Democratic Party chair Rita Hart says if those tax credits expire on December 31st, it will create a health care crisis.

Nick Larson, a farmer from Walker, gets insurance through the Affordable Care Act for himself, his wife and three children.