Those help up to 20 Million American’s be able to afford healthcare insurance….
The program was added to Obamacare by President Biden during the Covid period…
Now some Republicans want the help to go away…
Other Republicans NOT in Red districts and Democrats want action to keep the benefit going…
It runs out at the end of the year….
Me thinks SOMEHOW the subsidies will be kept….
SOMEHOW?….
A group of House Republicans moved to force a vote on extending Obamacare health insurance subsidies that will expire in just three weeks, directly challenging party leaders who appear determined to let them lapse.
At least six Republicans signed a discharge petition filed Wednesday on a bill authored by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) that would extend the expiring tax credits for two years while imposing new eligibility requirements. The subsidies are currently used by more than 20 million Americans.
“It’s a time-sensitive matter, and it’s an existential matter,” Fitzpatrick told reporters after filing the petition. “You try to do things through the normal course. You try to do things through regular order. You know, [when] all those remedies are exhausted, then you’ve got to go this route, unfortunately.”
Another discharge petition, seeking a vote on a one-year subsidy extension authored by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), was also filed Wednesday and quickly picked up support from several Republicans.
The moves to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson came as a growing number of mainstream House Republicans publicly warned that their leaders’ apparent plan to allow the tax credits to expire without a replacement in place will cost them their majority in next year’s midterm elections.
“If we fumble this health care ball, nothing else is going to matter,” Rep. John Rutherford of Florida said. “If we don’t win the majority in the midterms, then none of this matters. We can’t do anything good then. I think everybody understands that.”
Johnson did not include a subsidy extension in a menu of options he presented to members in a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning, and some conservative hard-liners who attended spoke against the idea.
But many members in the meeting spoke up to call for an extension, to the point that Republicans leaving the room thought that they had in fact decided to forge ahead with an extension….
Note…
We seem to be talking about the 2026 Midterm Election’s and Democrats getting help from Republican idiocy …
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