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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
A bipartisan group of senators is making a renewed push toward finding a health care solution as the hour-glass winds down to the end-of-month deadline to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. Roughly 20 senators met Monday night at the invitation of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), with lawmakers using a proposal from her and Sen....
An agreement between moderate Republicans and GOP leadership in the House to allow a vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies is on the rocks as the two sides squabble over the contents of the amendment. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and other GOP centrists are planning to introduce an amendment in the House...
An NBC News Decision Desk survey released Sunday found that over eight in 10 respondents are satisfied with their health insurance coverage, just weeks before Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies are set to expire. The poll, powered by SurveyMonkey, found that 34 percent of respondents were “very satisfied” with their coverage, while 48 percent reported...
The House and Senate return to Washington for the last week before the long holiday recess, and the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies will take center stage once again. The House is expected to vote on the Republicans' health care proposal, as well as an ObamaCare subsidies extension amendment. The Senate will take up the...