Obamacare

Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans. The stunning move comes after House Republican leaders pushed ahead…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday insisted that he has not lost control of the lower chamber of Congress in the wake of four Republican moderates mounting a major rebellion by joining with Democrats to force a vote on extending expiring ObamaCare subsidies.  “I have not lost control of the…

The Affordable Care Act is one of the most dishonestly and deceptively titled pieces of legislation in U.S. history, and it passed early in Barack Obama's first term with zero Republican support. Now that the wheels are coming off the Democrats are nevertheless blaming Republicans for what their own law…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans. The stunning move came the same day…

Topline The House will be forced to vote whether to extend Obamacare tax credits that expire at the end of the year after four Republicans broke with their party to support the effort led by Democrats. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations,…

Four House Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday to force a House vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits that will expire Dec. 31, delivering a sharp rebuke to Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP leaders. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Mike Lawler of New York...Read More

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…

A group of vulnerable House Republicans confronted Speaker Mike Johnson inside a closed-door meeting Tuesday about expiring Obamacare health insurance subsidies — and Johnson’s refusal to allow a vote on extending them. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) could be heard yelling outside the room where the centrist Republican Governance Group was…

An infuriated Rep. Mike Lawler left a closed-door House Republican meeting Tuesday and sounded off on GOP leaders who are planning to allow key Obamacare subsidies to expire in two weeks. "This is absolute bullshit," the New York Republican said. “I think it's idiotic not to have an up-or-down vote…

Rank-and-file dealmakers in both chambers are making last-ditch attempts to extend key Obamacare subsidies this week, even as it becomes crystal clear the subsidies will expire first. House GOP moderates are hashing out what sort of extension to offer as an amendment at Tuesday afternoon’s Rules meeting — even as…