Senate heads toward dueling partisan votes on health care, with each likely to fail
December 9, 2025
The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week. Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire and would replace them with new savings accounts. A Democratic bill would extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years. Neither plan has the bipartisan support needed for passage. With Republicans and Democrats unable to agree or even negotiate with each other, millions of people could see increases in their premium payments when the tax credits expire in January.