Senate stares down fraught health care battle with ObamaCare subsidies set to expire
Source: The Hill
12/21/25 5:00 PM ET
Senate negotiators are set for a high-wire act on health care in the coming weeks after leaving Washington for the holidays without a resolution on the expiring enhanced subsidies, with lawmakers increasingly shifting into campaign mode as the calendar flips to the new year.
The chamber has been consumed for months by a fight over the future of the expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, which were at the center of a record-breaking government shutdown and the subject of multiple votes and extensive negotiations in the weeks since.
With the Dec. 31 deadline set to come and go, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to keep hopes alive that a deal could come together next month. But they face numerous headwinds — chief among them being the fraught nature of health care rhetoric and the looming midterms.
“Since ObamaCare’s passage, any conversation about anything on health care has been a big lift,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). “Everybody sees the problems and, at times, my Democratic colleagues will admit, ‘OK, yeah, that’s a problem.’ But trying to vote on it has been tougher, so no matter what we do tweaking this thing out, it’s going to be hard.”
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