17 House Republicans Join Democrats to Restore Obamacare Subsidies Extension
It’ll likely die in the Senate.
This week needs to take a chill pill.
Seventeen House Republicans voted with the Democrats to pass legislation to restore the Obamacare subsidies.
The final vote was 230-196.
We have:
- Rob Bresnahan (PA)
- Mike Carey (OH)
- Monica De La Cruz (TX)
- Maria Elvira-Salazar (FL)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (PA)
- Andrew Garbarino (NY)
- Jeff Hurd (CO)
- David Joyce (OH)
- Tom Kean (NJ)
- Nick LaLota (NY)
- Mike Lawler (NY)
- Ryan Mackenzie (PA)
- Max Miller (OH)
- Zach Nunn (IA)
- David Valadao (CA)
- Derrick Van Orden (WI)
- Rob Wittman (VA)
Five people did not vote, all Republicans:
- James Baird (IN)
- Wesley Hunt (TX)
- Michael McCaul (TX)
- Gregory Murphy (NC)
- John Rutherford (FL)
In all fairness, regarding Baird, he’s recovering after a horrible car accident in Indiana.
The legislation reached the floor because last month, four Republicans signed Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition, which needed 218 signatures.
Yes, those four men voted to pass the legislation today.
However, the bill is likely dead on arrival in the Senate.
According to Politico, some of the Republicans hope the Senate could utilize the legislation to develop a bipartisan agreement.
“The Senate could put together a product that could ultimately get sent back over to the House that we can then conference on and hopefully move across the finish line,” said Bresnahan.
The Hyde Amendment was always viewed as a roadblock for a bipartisan agreement.
That might have ended, though, after President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to be “flexible” on the amendment, which limits federal funds for abortion.
“You have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know that,” Trump said on Tuesday. “You gotta be a little flexible. You gotta work something … we’re all big fans of everything. But you have to have flexibility.”
We’ll see how pro-life the senators who claim they will always protect life inside the womb.
Will they run with Trump’s blessing? There’s no flexibility when it comes to life, in and out of the womb.
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Comments
PRIMARY those that voted to continue the TAXPAYER FUNDED subsidies for the monstrocity known as #obamaSCAM!
It’s hard enough paying for my own heathcare while also subsidizing others.
I feel the same way about telephone service, utilities, and groceries. I’m not subsidized on any of it. Granted, I’m not exactly poor, but I am on a fixed income.
Subsidies for Obamacare were capped at 400% of the poverty rate by Democrats who wrote the bill.
They used Covid as an excuse to eliminate the income cap entirely. Temporary. Democrats then extended this twice more. So, 3 times Democrats voted to have the cap restored to 400%.
Without any income cap, Elon Musk could sign up for an Obamacare plan and taxpayers would subsidize 2/3 of the cost.
Note that 87% of Americans are NOT on Obamacare.
Why should 87% of us be taxed to subsidize people earning >400% of the poverty level, same as us, for their insurance? I already pay for my own. Don’t make me pay for yours as well.
Reason #523,654,865,064,054 why I’ll never vote Democrat.
What else is new? The vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats can always count on peeling off a few feckless, spineless, greasy and malleable “conservatives” to join them in their quest to further bankrupt and destroy the U.S.
The Dhimmi-crats exhibit a perennial unity in Congress that the GOP can still only dream of achieving, one day.
Primary those 22 Republicans. Hard.
RINOs voting to save an abomination passed originally by Democrats only.
Get rid of ALL of them.
none of this would be an issue anymore except for John Roberts
And Juan McStain who joins Demtards with his infamous Thumbs Down Vote to keep “The Unaffordable Care Act” alive.
What a bunch of goddamn traitors
I’ve always been amazed that they call it Obama Care when Obama doesn’t Care.
The joke is on us, because Obama cares that Americans are getting swindled, and idiot Republicans seem to agree
If you like your doctor you can keep your…..
Ha ha ha. Snicker snicker snicker.
“If I’m telling you the money is there, that’s the story!”
–Kathy Hochul
How interesting.
Why is the house doing some kind of funding appropritation, while The Otherwise Feckless R’s are making some progress with actual appropriation bills, originating in the House, right now. O-care subsidies ought to go in one of the appropriation categories, n’est pas?
End running the Regular Order when Regular Order is inexplicably a little bit alive is kinda discouraging. Might make Johen Boehner’s ghost cry.
I am old enough to remember when the GOP voted in lockstep to repeal Obamacare – again and again and again. Of course it was all for show since there was zero chance of it passing.
Then during Trump #1 – when they actually had the votes to repeal Obamacare – suddenly they chickened out.
Now during Trump #2 there are 17 Republicans wanting to pour billions more into the “Affordable Care Act” that never was affordable in the first place. In a few more years the GOP will be pushing single payer healthcare and trying frantically to get to the left of the Communists.
“Then during Trump #1 – when they actually had the votes to repeal Obamacare – suddenly they chickened out.”
They do the same dance routine for us, except in Stetsons instead of scrubs.
htf are we going to maga with rinos destroying america!?
new slogan:
its so affordable
you cant afford it
I am less certain than you that this will fail in the senate.
Why are so many Republicans fighting so hard to seize Defeat from the jaws of Victory?
Republicans will whimper, not scream, when the midterms go sideways and 2028 is a train wreck. Bunch of wimps.
Anyone here willing to give up the subsidies for their Medicare?
Sure — as long as everybody else has to also.
Playground talk. Commenters here who want to deprive people of their ACA subsidies. I’m sure people with ACA subsidies would also say, “as long as everybody else has to also.”
See if you can come up with a useful suggestion.
All RINOs. Should be primaried. We need a new party-MAGA. The republicans or Conservative Party are not different from the democratic party