Hill December 17, 2025
House GOP moderates on Wednesday privately huddled with a bipartisan group of senators to begin plotting the next steps on extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies.
The meeting came after four Republicans broke ranks and signed a Democratic-led discharge petition, pushing it to the 218 signatures required to force a vote on extending the ObamaCare subsidies for three years.
Absent cooperation from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and an emergency hearing in the House Rules Committee, members will not be able to force a vote on the matter until early January.
But House moderates are already looking ahead. At a meeting in the Capitol Wednesday morning, they talked strategy with senators including Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Bernie Moreno...
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