LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON – The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a three-year extension of expanded Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies that had lapsed at the beginning of the year in a rebuke to House GOP leaders and President Donald Trump. AdvertisementThursday’s bipartisan House vote resulted from four Republicans signing on to a Democratic “discharge petition,” a legislative tool that allows lawmakers to circumvent the majority party’s leadership team, which normally controls action on the House floor. While the shutdown utterly failed to “save health care,” as Democrats had hoped, it succeeded in raising awareness that more than 20 million people would see their health insurance premium costs increase by 100% or more this year. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), one of the moderate House Republicans who signed the discharge petition, said he thinks of Thursday’s vote as a way to spur negotiations. Lawler and several other moderate House Republicans last year worked on bills that would extend the subsidies for less than three years, with income limits and other changes designed to reduce the cost of the extension.

Source: Huffington Post January 09, 2026 02:11 UTC