House GOP dissidents back ACA vote
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One of the last remaining GOP congress members who voted to impeach Donald Trump is headed out the door.
Johnson faces latest challenge as GOP attempts to move forward with package to lower health care costs but ignores bipartisan calls to extend Obamacare subsidies.
The House advance a GOP health care bill on Wednesday, even as moderate Republicans signed onto a Democratic discharge petition to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies in an act of defiance
House Republican Mike Lawler calls party leadership "idiotic" for not holding a vote on expiring Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a possible revolt from a small bloc of GOP centrists this week over the looming expiration of Covid-era Obamacare subsidies — which will spike premiums for tens of millions of Americans in 2026.
An 11th-hour effort by moderate Republicans to put an extension on the floor for a vote failed Tuesday night, when the House Rules Committee blocked several of the amendments they were seeking to the attach to a GOP health care plan released last week. The GOP plan does not include an extension. A vote on the bill is expected Wednesday.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that GOP leaders tailored the debate around a series of Republican ObamaCare amendments to ensure they would fail. “Fear of a bill getting 218 votes on the floor is not a reason to keep it off,” Fitzpatrick ...
Lawmakers face a time crunch on health care affordability, with a Dec. 31 expiration date on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
House Republicans unveiled a narrow health care package on Friday that does not extend soon-to-expire enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies — the latest sign that Congress is unlikely to avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for millions of Americans in the new year.
A discharge petition led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to force a vote on a bill to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies for three years has reached the 218 signature