The House will vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Speaker Mike Johnson has tried for months to prevent a vote in the House of Representatives on an extension of public subsidies. But as moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives grow increasingly desperate to extend the subsidies, moderates have teamed up with Democrats in the House of Representatives to sign a discharge petition that will force a House vote on the subsidies.
These four Republican centrists – New York Representative Mike Lawler and Pennsylvania Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan – have officially opted for what they have described as the nuclear option.
Now that they’ve signed off on Democrats’ procedural maneuver to force a floor vote on their proposed three-year extension of the enhanced tax credits in the Affordable Care Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries needs the 218 signatures needed to guarantee a vote under the rules for discharge petitions. However, under the same rules, that vote cannot be enforced until January.
Rep. Jeffries has already urged Johnson to put the legislation to a vote now.
Jeffries posted on X:
Urgent update. Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a simple extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures. Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.
The move by moderate Republicans to join Jeffries and the Democrats has implications beyond Obamacare subsidies. It’s a total undermining of it Johnson’s power.
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