Senate stares down fraught health care battle with ObamaCare subsidies set to expire
Source: The Hill
12/21/25 5:00 PM ET
Senate negotiators are set for a high-wire act on health care in the coming weeks after leaving Washington for the holidays without a resolution on the expiring enhanced subsidies, with lawmakers increasingly shifting into campaign mode as the calendar flips to the new year.
The chamber has been consumed for months by a fight over the future of the expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, which were at the center of a record-breaking government shutdown and the subject of multiple votes and extensive negotiations in the weeks since.
With the Dec. 31 deadline set to come and go, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to keep hopes alive that a deal could come together next month. But they face numerous headwinds — chief among them being the fraught nature of health care rhetoric and the looming midterms.
“Since ObamaCare’s passage, any conversation about anything on health care has been a big lift,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). “Everybody sees the problems and, at times, my Democratic colleagues will admit, ‘OK, yeah, that’s a problem.’ But trying to vote on it has been tougher, so no matter what we do tweaking this thing out, it’s going to be hard.”
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The Rs are running from the disaster they created when they built the poison pill into the ACA. They've created this monstrosity and now they have no idea how to fix it. They're just hoping nobody remembers who made the mess.
