Politico December 6, 2025
Obamacare premiums will rise on Jan. 1 unless Congress acts.
Republicans who had months to fight over the fate of expiring Obamacare subsidies are now faced with a flurry of proposals from across the conference attempting to fill the legislative vacuum.
And all of them appear to be doomed.
Many in Congress see little chance of bipartisan agreement when senators vote next week on the subsidies, whose pending expiration fueled a six-week government shutdown that ended last month only after Majority Leader John Thune promised Democrats a vote on an extension.
“Some of our folks who are working on this issue are trying to come up with something that unites Senate Republicans,” Thune told POLITICO this week, adding that there...
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