Posted on 11/10/2025 4:55:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would not commit Monday when CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed him on bringing a vote to the floor to address health care affordability before the ACA tax subsidies expire.
The eight Senate Democrats who voted in favor of the continuing resolution Sunday night to help reopen the government did so with the belief that Republicans would begin healthcare talks. Under President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act, tax subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year and cause premiums to skyrocket.
“The problem is when you’re subsidizing insurance companies, they just jack the rates up even higher,” Johnson said. “I mean, we’ve been seeing this over and over and over. So the solution is to get …at the root causes.”
Johnson said House Republicans have “a lot of ideas that we’d like to bring back to the table, because that will actually solve the problem and not just subsidize insurance companies.”
Tapper asked, “So you’re not committing to bringing up a bill that deals with the Obamacare subsidies before they expire?”
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Johnson loves the LORD, so what appears “waffling” is merely Johnson struggling to avoid disobeying Matthew 5:22. :-)
Democrats: “No Kings!”
Also Democrats: “You are the head of the Senate, why aren’t you just making all the decisions yourself? Are you some kind of wimp?”
Do the Democrats think Johnson is the head of the Senate?
Free waffles for veterans at IHop tomorrow
SENATE Republicans agreed to vote on an Obamacare bill. Don’t think the House did. Get stuffed, Tapper.
That’s my bad. Total brain fart. I was thinking House and I typed Senate.
“Beginning in January, the bill would give small employers a $100 per-month per-member tax credit to offer ICHRA plans.”
“ICHRAs allows employers to offer workers tax-free money to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), rather than being told to select a plan.”
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/it-reminds-me-bitcoin-healthcare-execs-split-ichras
Good! This will further infuriate the lefties who are convinced that Schumer caved.
The point is that Obamacare is what the Democrats stuffed down our throats in 2010. 15 years later it has survived one attempt to repeal (thanks John McCain) and one serious SCOTUS challenge. It is what the democrats passed and it works the way they designed it. The subsequent subsidy was put in place during a crisis which has long since passed. The premium shock is a return to Obamacare as it was designed. The GOP should 1) point this out through bullhorns and 2) do nothing to change it.
Too late, Jake...the Senate Democrats already OK’ed it, and even Thomas Massie and the House Democrats can’t stop it now! 😂😂😂
And don’t forget the first two years of Trump’s presidency in 2016, the GOPe did NOTHING when controlling the WH, senate and congress.
don’t believe the House agreed to do anything. Waffle away.
>> even Thomas Massie and the House Democrats can’t stop it
...but you repeat yourself. :-)
Screw obamacare. When is he going to bring up a bill to mandate national voter ID?
If there are options they’re discussing, it’s not *waffling* to not commit to something.
And besides, politicians since when do people have to answer to the media? Who do the media think they are demanding people answer to them and then holding them accountable for varying at all from what they already said.
All that is is a gotcha the MSM will use to vilify someone later.
Oh, sorry. I thought it was the author of the article.
At that time they made the place into Waffle House.
The Republicans threw the Dems a lifeline when they agreed to an Obamacare vote. They might could win it.
🧇🥞🍳🥓. Now I’m hungry.
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