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House Republicans ready health care package that will not extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies

House Republicans are planning to vote on a health care package next week that does not renew enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies, prompting a group of centrist Republicans to launch a discharge petition to try to force a vote on a two-year extension.

December 10, 2025

Senate Republicans come up with an alternative to Democrats’ Obamacare subsidy extension

Senate Republicans have mostly united around a proposal to avoid the year-end health care cliff.

December 9, 2025

Senate Republicans circulate health care proposals for averting year-end subsidy cliff

Senate Republicans are floating a variety of health care plans to address the year-end expiration of enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies that is projected to more than double out-of-pocket costs for 22 million Americans.

December 8, 2025

GOP unity tested as lawmakers seek health plan to counter Democrats’ Obamacare subsidy extension

Republicans never could unite around a health care plan to replace Obamacare, and now they're struggling to coalesce around short- and long-term fixes as Congress faces a year-end cliff.

December 5, 2025

Senate Democrats opt for partisan vote on a 3-year extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies

Senate Democrats plan to use their GOP-promised health care vote next week to try to advance a clean three-year extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies because they say no bipartisan path is available.

December 4, 2025

Democrats refusing to negotiate on Obamacare subsidies

Democrats, believing they have the political upper hand on a health care cliff they created, are rebuffing GOP alternatives to extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies set to expire this year.

December 3, 2025

House lawmakers struggle to protect kids on social media without trampling on free speech rights

House lawmakers working on a package of bills to protect kids online say they are trying to strike the appropriate balance between forcing Big Tech to implement safeguards and protecting users' rights.

December 2, 2025

Kelly says Pentagon hasn’t notified him of potential court-martial, other than Hegseth’s post

Sen. Mark Kelly said Monday that he's not received formal notification from the Defense Department about being recalled to active-duty status so he can face court-martial proceedings.

December 1, 2025

Schumer’s New York offices receive bomb threats with email titled ‘MAGA’

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said three of his New York offices were targeted with bomb threats in email with the subject line "MAGA."

December 1, 2025

‘A step backwards’: Parents, senators wince at House bill to protect kids on social media

A newly released House bill to protect children online omits a key provision from the Senate version that sponsors and advocates argue is what gives the measure teeth against social media companies.

November 27, 2025

Trump: More Obamacare subsidies ‘may be necessary to get something else done’

President Trump late Tuesday disputed reports that he wants to temporarily extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies for two years, but left the door open to compromising on extension to get a deal that eventually replaces them.

November 25, 2025

What’s in the GOP’s plan for government-funded, tax-exempt HSA — and why Democrats don’t like it

Congressional Republicans are considering tax-exempt health savings accounts as their preferred vehicle to deliver on President Trump's call to send taxpayer-funded health care subsidies directly to consumers instead of insurers.

November 25, 2025

Bipartisan use of discharge petitions to force House votes is on the rise

The legislative tool that House lawmakers used to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files is growing in popularity, as frustrated rank-and-file members move to advance bipartisan priorities that GOP leaders have ignored.

November 24, 2025

From loyalist to dissenter: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s exit raises questions about MAGA’s future

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's abrupt resignation from Congress after her bitter falling-out with President Trump is exposing divisions within the MAGA movement less than a year before the crucial midterm elections that will shape the final two years of the Trump presidency.

November 23, 2025

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign effective Jan. 5, cites spats with Trump and GOP

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Friday that she is resigning from Congress because the loyalty she's given to President Trump and the Republican Party has not been returned and she refuses to be a "battered wife."

November 22, 2025

‘Complete waste’: Fights and frustration mark House’s first full week back after record shutdown

House lawmakers spent their first full week back in Washington after the 43-day government shutdown fighting not just with the opposite party but within their own ranks.

November 21, 2025

House votes to oppose socialist policies as Mamdani meets with Trump

The House adopted a resolution denouncing socialism on Friday, the day New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is meeting with President Trump at the White House.

November 21, 2025

Thune says damages from Arctic Frost spying would go to the Treasury, not senators

Senators will not be able to personally profit from a new law allowing them to sue the government for damages if their phone records are accessed for a federal investigation without their knowledge.

November 20, 2025

House refers censure resolution of Rep. Cory Mills to Ethics Committee

The House voted Wednesday night to refer a resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills, Florida Republican, for a variety of alleged transgressions to the House Ethics Committee.

November 19, 2025

Senators divided over government payout for Biden Justice Dept. spying on their phone records

The Senate is debating whether to repeal, expand or keep a new law that allows senators to sue the government for damages if their phone records are accessed for a federal investigation without their knowledge.

November 19, 2025