On Friday, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) expressed his belief that the current government shutdown, the longest recorded in recent U.S. history, will extend beyond Thanksgiving.

“I think it’s going to go on after Thanksgiving,” Burchett told anchor Black Burman on “The Hill on NewsNation.” “Yeah, I think the pain is going to continue until the TSA — [if] you have three or four Democrats peel off and capitulate on this thing, and it’s going to come back and say, ‘Hey, you know this is our health care issue. Let’s come to the table. Let’s quit suffering. Let’s get to the table on this, on this health care issue.’”

“Until there’s a resolution, I don’t foresee any changes,” Burchett remarked.

Burchett explained that Republicans have firmly committed to passing a straightforward continuing resolution. He mentioned that if Democrats are open to discussions about extending health care subsidies due to expire at year’s end, he supports President Trump’s proposal to reopen the government.

He accused Democrats of benefiting financially from health insurance companies, suggesting the party is funded by those who profit from the Affordable Care Act.

“It’s not the doctors gaining from this, nor the patients,” Burchett stated. “Certainly not those misled from the beginning. It’s like dangling a $5 bill on a fishing line down the Senate halls, and Democrats are all chasing it. That’s the real issue at hand.”

“It’s not about taking care of people. It’s about power. It’s about control. It’s arrogance. It’s Washington, D.C., to a T and it needs to change.”

Earlier in the day, Senate Democrats offered Republicans a short-term funding stopgap with an attached three-bill “minibus” and the extension of tax credits for a year. Republicans saw the offer as a “nonstarter” and, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called it, as “terrible.”

“The five largest health care companies in America have had a 1,000 percent increase in their stock prices since 2010. We’re flooding these people with money that’s creating inflation,” Graham continued. “The program is broken, and I’m not going to keep giving hundreds of billions of dollars to insurance companies.”

While Democrats have made extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies their central focus amid funding negotiations, Republicans have consistently said they will negotiate only after the government reopens.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) held the same line.

“A one-year extension along the lines of what they’re suggesting … it just doesn’t even get close,” Thune said, and added that the Democratic offer also does not include protections for the Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of federal funds to pay for abortions.