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For 2026, are the baseline cutoff for eligibility for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits under current statute; that range translates roughly to about using the cited 2026 figures. A pa...
President Biden’s administration expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) financial help, which initially reduced premiums and drove enrollment, but the scheduled expiration of enhanced premium tax credits ...
The 2025 federal government shutdown began on October 1, 2025, and lasted 43 days, making it the longest U.S. shutdown on record; lawmakers passed stopgap funding in November that reopened most agenci...
The expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits in 2026 would sharply raise marketplace premiums for subsidized enrollees and likely increase the uninsured population, wit...
Democrats are not demanding a single, one-line “additional amount” for health care in the current funding fight; their public demands range from extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium ta...
The evidence from multiple contemporaneous reports shows the 2025 shutdown resulted from a failure in Congress to pass funding, rooted in a partisan standoff over , with both parties asserting the oth...
Democrats’ chief pathway to ending the government shutdown centers on reopening the government in exchange for a concrete commitment to negotiate extensions of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, wit...
Democratic lawmakers oppose the proposed “clean” continuing resolution chiefly because it does not extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits and keeps spending at levels they say fall ...
The analyses show the 2025 Democratic budget prioritizes extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies and protecting Medicaid access, while the Republican plan emphasizes spending cuts to Me...
Congressional activity at the start of 2026 centers on competing legislative paths to keep the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits alive: Democrats pushed a three‑year extension tha...
Republican-led policy moves this year — especially letting the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits lapse or replacing them with alternative mechanisms — are projected to produce lar...
Democrats insisted that any stopgap spending deal include an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — a benefit that helped about 22–24 million people and was set to e...
The pre‑shutdown concessions offered to Speaker Mike Johnson centered on a short‑term funding package that combined a minibus of appropriations with a continuing resolution through late January, a ple...
Republicans in the 2025 funding talks demanded a mix of procedural and policy concessions: reopening the government while securing a future vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium...
Democratic leaders have, in some instances during 2024–2025, pressed for funding or policy riders on specific items—most prominently and at times broader foreign‑aid packages including Ukraine—when ne...
Republican objections to Democratic priorities in the continuing resolution (CR) coalesce around three broad themes: , , and . These objections show up repeatedly in GOP messaging and legislative offe...
The legislative body can legally vote to reopen the government by passing a short‑term funding bill (a continuing resolution) that extends current funding while negotiators resolve outstanding dispute...
Republicans object to the Democratic shutdown-ending proposal primarily because it would extend enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies for a year and include policy and spending elements they de...
Democrats' central offer to end the 2025 government shutdown is a short-term funding deal that pairs a with a one-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits and a small p...
Democrats are demanding a one-year extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies, a “clean” continuing resolution to reopen the government at current funding levels, and the creation o...