SCHUMER is on the floor right now. he will propose a 1-year extension of Obamacare subsidies. Remember: Speaker Mike Johnson is opposed to this.

Read more about remote patient monitoring here KFF Peterson Center on Healthcare healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collecti…

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Timely research on the SNAP program

Not this again. Insurance provides access to health care, so it’s actually health care that “doesn’t save lives”, statistically in the aggregate, because most people aren’t sick. But if you get sick, it absolutely does. Anybody ready to go without it.  washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

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NEWS — A deal in the Senate to end the government shutdown is within reach, multiple sources from both parties told Axios. At least 10 Dems are likely to support a procedural vote on a package of funding bills and a CR, sources said. It would be in exchange for a vote on ACA

And this does absolutely zero on Obamacare. The most Democrats get is a Senate vote. After 40 days.

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

Peter Sullivan That’s the end of Open Enrollment for a Jan 1 effective date.

HOUSE PASSES BILL to end the shutdown 222-209.

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., tells me tonight the enhanced ACA funds should "absolutely" expire. What about the Republicans who want to cut a deal to extend the money? "There's not gonna be any deal cut," Norman says. Does Speaker Johnson share this view? "I think he does."

No such thing as "underage women." They're children. And if they're below the age of consent, it's rape, not sex. You cannot "have sex" with a child. It's called statutory rape because they cannot give consent.

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Trump: Why don't we pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance? And I made that statement—I made it a little bit cavalierly but it sounded good and everyone is picking up including Democrats. People love it.

The legislation Congress passed to reopen the government included a provision banning intoxicating products made out of hemp plants, a type of cannabis like marijuana, but with a lower level of the psychoactive element THC. Ali Rogin speaks with Manisha Krishnan of WIRED about

this isn't even hypothetical -- Times reporting shows that there is a literal violent pedophile that is currently not being hunted down because the agents have been reassigned to immigration work

With all the talk about ACA costs being out of control, they are actually quite similar to and slightly less than employer (group) health costs. The problem is health care costs not the ACA. healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-aca-…

Leaving aside the issue that people buying insurance would buy it from insurance companies. This sounds like an effort to let people bypass the ACA. Healthy people could buy cheaper insurance that doesn't cover pre-existing conditions, sending the ACA into a premium death spiral.

Lots of fresh chatter about Republicans eying a health care plan. A reminder that there is no party consensus or legislative product that's ready for prime time (or even close). This issue has tripped up Rs every time they've attempted it (even with big majorities) for 15 years.