President Trump is addressing the nation during primetime on Wednesday evening from the Diplomatic Reception Room. He began his speech talking about how his administration "inherited a mess" with the remarks also touching on immigration. The House passed a partisan health care bill that didn't include an extension of ObamaCare tax subsidies on Wednesday evening,...
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How the long-running Obamacare fight came to thwart enhanced subsidies in Congress
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.
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House won’t vote on ObamaCare amendments after heated committee meeting
Republicans on the House Rules Committee on Tuesday shut the door on amendments to extend the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, effectively setting the stage for a surge in health insurance premiums as Congress leaves for winter recess later this week. A group of moderate Republicans offered the amendments during a committee debate on a...
Republicans ready to jump off ObamaCare cliff
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Republicans ready to jump off ObamaCare cliff Republicans are gearing up to let enhanced ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the month. The deadline was Monday for people on Affordable Care Act plans who want to enroll in coverage...
Republican tensions boil over as ObamaCare deadline approaches
Republican tensions boiled over Tuesday in the Capitol over the fate of expiring ObamaCare subsidies that could play an outsized role in the race for the House next year. Republican moderates lashed out at House GOP leadership just hours after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) backtracked on his plan to vote this week to extend the...
Top Democrat leaves door open to support for bipartisan ObamaCare bills
The head of the House Democratic Caucus said Tuesday that Democrats aren’t ruling out the possibility of supporting bipartisan legislation to extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies. Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), like other Democratic leaders, is still pushing hard for the Democrats’ three-year “clean” extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, which expire at the...
House GOP will not allow amendment vote to extend ObamaCare subsidies
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there will not be an amendment vote on extending expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies as part of a House Republican health care bill this week, in a move that is infuriating moderate Republicans who had been pushing to go on the record about the subsidies. Johnson said in a press conference...
Watch live: House Democrats speak amid health care battle
House Democratic leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as the battle to address rising health care premiums persists on Capitol Hill. Affordable Care Act subsidies, or enhanced tax credits that keep insurance costs lower for struggling Americans, are set to expire at the end of the month — a major point of contention during...
Watch live: House Republicans give remarks amid pressure to extend ACA subsidies
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire at the end of the month. GOP lawmakers in the lower chamber of Congress unveiled their own version of a health care bill, which included broadly popular items among the conference —...
Live updates: GOP tensions over ObamaCare subsidies flare with deadline looming
Tempers are flaring in the House Republican conference as lawmakers scramble to address rising insurance premium costs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before their holiday recess. Moderate Republicans raised their voices in a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Tuesday afternoon as they pushed for a vote on extending the expiring subsidies. Johnson had...