Posted on 12/17/2025 9:13:39 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Four moderate House Republicans are rebelling against Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to join his Democratic counterpart in forcing a vote on enhanced Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of this year.
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., all joined a discharge petition by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on his push for a three-year extension of the subsidies.
A discharge petition is a mechanism for overriding the will of House leaders to get a chamber-wide vote on specific legislation, provided it has support from a majority of lawmakers.
In this case, the four House Republicans' signatures put Jeffries' petition at 218 — clinching the critical majority threshold.
"I've always supported bipartisan solutions that would bring about healthcare affordability in this country," Mackenzie told Fox News Digital on Wednesday of his decision. "Leader Jeffries and the Democrats have refused to sign onto either of those bipartisan solutions. And so at this point, our leadership is not calling up a bill to extend the [Obamacare] tax credits."
He called for a vote on the Democrat-led solution as well as two bipartisan bills offering one and two-year extensions, respectively, with reforms.
It comes despite Johnson warning Republicans earlier on Wednesday not to support Jeffries' petition, arguing it was not the best way to legislate. Johnson told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that it was effectively "doing an end-run around the majority party, the speaker or the regular process is not the best way to make law."
The House is expected to vote on a bill that Republicans say is aimed at lowering healthcare costs for all Americans, without extending the subsidies — which they argue are part of a deeply flawed public healthcare system.
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“Clearly, these traitorous scum need to be primaried.”
“Why? So they can be replaced by communists?”
That may easily happen anyway, in these 4 shaky districts.
But none of the 4 GOP Hakeem-supporters have even one primary opponent — yet. Challengers have until next March (in PA) or April (in NY) to file.
What these 4 terrified Republicans DO have is a TON of Democrat candidates lining up for the 2026 House elections in their districts already. They definitely smell blood in the water, and rightly so.
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Do not extend the covid subsidies no matter what. If you do, then you should lose your seat. Repugs voting for dim policy are no better than dims and we should just allow the dims to hold the seat and vote for their own policy.
There’s already a fire raging in the dumpster and the extra money printing will just fuel it more. Might as well get things over with I suppose by voting for the subsidies.
Four Republicans buck Mike Johnson to join Hakeem Jeffries’ Obamacare push.
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The Chancellor confirmed the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC’s) revenue budget will increase from £202 billion in 2025-26 to £232 billion in 2028-29 – a real-terms average increase of 2.7% over the full SR25 period (including 25/26). Most of this budget will be allocated to the NHS, whose funding will see 3% average real-terms growth over 2025/26-2028/29 – an increase from £195.6bn in 2025/26 to £226bn in 2028/29.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/financial-performance-update-6/
That’s about $6,000/person/year.
Your question predicts what will happen after the mid term elections next year. If the four (or any of them) survive and are re-elected, they will have a new SOTH - Hakeem Jeffries. If they stay Republican, they will have less than a minor voice in the House. They will be Representatives without letters.
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P.S. surely some or all of them will determine that signing the discharge petition is not a vote on the final bill. With any due respect, stupidity runes wild in the Northeast.
So his $ 2,500/month premium is being reduced to $900/month with other people’s money. The brilliance of Obamacare was the obfuscation of this subsidy and the various subgroup cross-subsidies. I say make it obvious - put it in the face of everyone by making the monthly statement perfectly transparent. As in “Your health care insurance costs $2500/month, other people are paying taxes that fund a $1600 subsidy, you pay $900.”
The insanity of it is that none of the articles detailing the political intrigue in this have any $figures in them. No one is explaining how much a 3-year extension of this will increase the annual deficit and the National Debt.
They must have a bunch of loser constituents who want us to pay their medical bills.
Well, someone like United Health Care can’t lose very many billions of $$. Their net revenue in 2024 was $400.3 billion but their net income was only $14.4 billion, which works out to a net profit margin for 2024 of 3.6%. Their CEO, Andrew Witty, received a total compensation of $26.34 million in 2024. That’s a tidy sum indeed, but even if 100% of it went back to customers, it would be meaningless.
Perhaps we are barking at the wrong dog.
I’m not surprised to see FitzRINOpatrick on the list. He is one the most liberal so-called Republicans in Congress.
He sent me a manufactured Christmas card this year with a fake signature. I promptly threw it in the trash.
That's because no one cares about that.
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