Against the wishes of House Speaker Mike Johnson, the House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on a measure that would renew enhanced health insurance subsidies that expired at the end of last year.
The 3-year extension is expected to pass the House, but it may not go far in the Senate, where a similar measure failed in December. A bipartisan group of senators, however, say they are close to a deal on a compromise bill for the Affordable Care Act subsidies.
While the debate over health care costs absorbed much of the oxygen in Congress in the final weeks of 2025, the rush to take action on the lapsed subsidies is now happening as members find themselves grappling with questions about the direction of U.S. foreign policy following Trump’s actions in Venezuela. That includes an expected vote in the Senate on Thursday on a resolution to block U.S. forces from further engaging in hostilities against Venezuela without congressional authorization.
Republicans will reach no deal on this. Have we not learned?
Rename it for the current president and phrase it like it’s preventing aging republicans from dying and allowing liberals to overwhelm “us” at the polls.
Then basically rebuild the ACA under the new name after running it through a few translator apps to avoid plagiarism/s.
I hate that this is what it takes to imagine something good being done for America.
Theater.
We need theater, like we’re tricking a child into eating a spoonful by pretending the spoon is an airplane.
I hate it too, and it absolutely would work.
Let’s call passing this the “Trump saves the Entire World from the Radical Left Act”. That should work.
There’s a lot of money and power in looking like you’re solving a problem